City of Topeka v. Crawford

Citations

• 78 Kan. 583
• 96 P. 862
• 1908 Kan. LEXIS 106

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Cities and City Officers — Ordinances—Publication. Where the revised ordinances of a city of the first class are published in a book by authority of the city, an ordinance embraced in such book in which it is provided that it shall take effect upon such publication is sufficiently published, and will take effect accordingly, if more than fifty copies of such book are issued.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law — Complaint—Date of Alleged Offense. A complaint for the violation of an ordinance relating to labor on Sunday which alleges that the offense was committed on the - day of October, 1907, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, is sufficiently specific as to time.</p> <p>3. - Violation of Sunday Labor Law. To keep open, manage and superintend a theater and sell tickets therein on Sunday is labor within the meaning of an ordinance which provides that “every person who shall either labor himself, or compel his apprentice, servant or any o.ther person in his charge or control to labor or perform any work other than the household offices of daily necessity, or other work of necessity or charity, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.”</p>