State v. Binnard

Citations

• 21 Wash. 349
• 58 P. 210
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 288

Syllabus

<p>SUNDAY LAWS-KEEPING SALOONS OPEN-CONSTRUCTION OP STATUTE.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, § 7250, it is unlawful to keep open a saloon on Sunday, so as to make it accessible to persons desiring admittance, although no intoxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale on that day.</p> <p>SAME-STATUTES-REPEAL BY IMPLICATION.</p> <p>Bal. Code, § 7251, making it unlawful for any person to open on Sunday for the purpose of trade, or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, any shop, store or building or place of business whatever, with certain exceptions, and providing that the law shall apply to hotels only in so far as the sale of intoxicating liquors is concerned, does not impliedly repeal the earlier enactment of § 7250, which provides for the punishment of “any person who shall keep open any play house or theater, race ground, cock pit, or play at any game of chance for gain, or engage in any noisy amusements or keep open any drinking or billiard saloon, or sell or dispose of any intoxicating liquors as a beverage, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.”</p>