State v. Brunker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for a violation of the act (Gen. Statutes, tit.. 20, cli. 9, sec. 60,) which forbids the keeping open between the hours of twelve o’clock Saturday night and twelve o’clock of the Sunday night next following, any place in which it is reputed that intoxicating liquors are exposed for sale; brought by appeal from a justice of the peace to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury before Beardsley, J. Yerdict guilty, and motion for a new trial by…
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Information for a violation of the act (Gen. Statutes, tit.. 20, cli. 9, sec. 60,) which forbids the keeping open between the hours of twelve o’clock Saturday night and twelve o’clock of the Sunday night next following, any place in which it is reputed that intoxicating liquors are exposed for sale; brought by appeal from a justice of the peace to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury before Beardsley, J. Yerdict guilty, and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The first count in the complaint, upon which the defendant was tried and found guilty, charges him, in due form, as having kept open “ between the hours of twelve o’clock of the night of Saturday the 13th day of April, 1878, and twelve o’clock of the night of Sunday next following,” a certain saloon in which it then was and long had been reputed that spirituous and intoxicating liquors were and had been exposed for sale.
The motion for a new trial alleges that the Attorney for the State, on the trial to the jury, inquired of a witness if he was at the house of the accused on the Sunday…
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