State v. Bergfeldt

Citations

• 41 Wash. 234
• 83 P. 177
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1096

Syllabus

<p>Indictment — Sunday—Judicial Notice. An information charging the defendant with carrying on the business of barbering on Sunday on a day named, which in fact was Sunday, shows with sufficient certainty that the offense was committed on Sunday, since the court will take judicial notice of the day.</p> <p>Statutes — Amendment—Title—Sufficiency. Const., art. 2, § 37, providing that an act shall not he reversed or amended by mere reference to its title but that the act reviewed must be set forth in full, has no application to the implied repeal of a former law by another on the same subject which is a complete law in itself without mention of the former act.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Special Legislation — Prohibiting Barbering on Sunday — Validity of Statute. Laws 1903, p. 68, prohibiting the business of barbering on Sunday, does not violate the constitutional prohibitions against class legislation or special privileges, nor the Federal constitutional prohibitions against abridging the privileges of a citizen or the taking of liberty or property without due process of law, even as to those who conscientiously believe in the observance of the seventh day of the week (Rudkin, J., dissenting).</p>