Whiting v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an information against Adna Whiting for selling spiritous liquors contrary to the provisions of the statute of 1839, brought, originally, to the county court.
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IN ERROR. This was an information against Adna Whiting for selling spiritous liquors contrary to the provisions of the statute of 1839, brought, originally, to the county court. The information stated, That said Adna Whiting heretofore, to wit, on or about the 15th day of September, 1840, did, at said Farm-ington, sell spiritous liquors to one Edward R. Russell, without liberty granted by said town of Farmington, against the peace, and contrary to the statute in such case provided. After a trial and conviction of the defendant, he moved m arrest of judgment for the insufficiency of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The questions in this case arise upon exceptions taken to the sufficiency of the information, which is founded on the act of 1839, prescribing that no person or persons shall “ sell, directly or indirectly, any wines or spiritous liquors, in any town in this state, without liberty granted by the town,” as is provided in said act, under the penalty therein mentioned.
The defendant claims, that the information is defective, first, because the facts alleged in it as constituting the charge, are stated too generally, and not with that certainty or particularity which the law requires ; for that…
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