Purple v. Purple

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• upholding statute permitting warrantless arrests for “drunkenness, profane swearing, cursing or sabbath-breaking” against argument that “[t]he power of a justice of the peace to arrest and detain a citizen without complaint or warrant against him, is surely not given by the common law”

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