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In 1943, Jewell Williams, a Jehovah Witness was convicted in the Mayor's court for selling bibles without a permit under Sheridan City Ord.

No. 50. and fined $ 10, on a trial de novo, he obtained the same result.

Williams, joined other members of his faith and appealed similar convictions occurring across the state to the Arkansas Supreme Court in Berry v. City of Hope challenging the city ordinance as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, the Court agreed and held the ordinances unconstitutional.