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PRINCE v. MASSACHUSETTS

No. 98.

321 U.S. 158 (1944)

PRINCE v. MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 31, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Alfred A. Albert was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Robert T. Bushnell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The case brings for review another episode in the conflict between Jehovah's Witnesses and state authority. This time Sarah Prince appeals from convictions for violating Massachusetts' child labor laws, by acts said to be a rightful exercise of her religious convictions.

When the offenses were committed she was the aunt and custodian of Betty M. Simmons, a girl nine years of age. Originally there were...

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