Supreme Court of South Carolina July 1, 1941, 15287 (State v. Meredith)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne.

The defendant, Thomas Meredith, belongs to a religious society or organization called “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” and was tried and convicted in a Magistrate Court in Beaufort County on a charge of violating Section 7120 of the Code of 1932.