New York Supreme Court June 15, 1902 (People ex rel. Bedell v. De Mott)

Gaynor, J.:

The relator, a boy, was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued by a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Hemp-stead, County of Nassau. The warrant was issued on a complaint that the relator on May 25th, 1902, in the said town, “ did unlawfully and knowingly violate section 265 of the Penal Code of the state of New York relating to public sports on the Sabbath day in that he was playing