James M. Martin v. Beer Board for City

This appeal involves the constitutionality of the City of Dicksons ordinance prohibiting the sale of beer on Sunday. A convenience store owner filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the Circuit Court for Dickson County requesting review of the beer boards decision to suspend his permit for sixty days for selling beer to a minor and for selling beer on Sunday. The trial court reduced the suspension to thirty days after finding that the ordinance prohibiting the sale of beer on Sunday violated Tenn. Const. art. I, 3. The city has appealed. We have determined that the ordinance prohibiting the sale of beer on Sunday does not run afoul of either Tenn. Const. art. I, 3 or Tenn. Const. art. I, 8. Accordingly, we reverse the trial courts order and reinstate the sixty-day suspension.