Jonas Phillips Refuses to Testify on the Sabbath, April 5, 1793

Jonas Phillips Refuses to Testify on the Sabbath, April 5, 1793

from Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania, Volume 2, by A. J. Dallas (Philadelphia, 1798), p. 213

Stanbury versus Marks
In this cause (which was tried on Saturday, the 5th of April) the defendant offered Jonas Phillips, a Jew as a witness; but he refused to be sworn, because it was his Sabbath. The Court, therefore, fined him 10 pounds; but the defendant, afterwards, waving the benefit of his testimony, he was discharged from the fine.

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