Rawson v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. Tins was a complaint, preferred by a grand-juror of the town of Norwich, to a justice of the peace, against the present plaintiff in error, for a violation of the statute of 1846, regulating the sale of wines and spiritous liquors.
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IN ERROR. Tins was a complaint, preferred by a grand-juror of the town of Norwich, to a justice of the peace, against the present plaintiff in error, for a violation of the statute of 1846, regulating the sale of wines and spiritous liquors. The complaint was in the following words and figures: “ That Calvin 6. Rawson, at the town of Norwich, on or about the 24th day of May, A. D. 1847, with force and arms, he not being a taverner, did keep a certain house, store and shop, for the purpose of selling wine and spiritous liquors, to wit, rum, brandy, gin and wine, to be drank thereat, against…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
This complaint is founded upon the statute of 1846, “ regulating the sale of Wines and Spiritous Liquors ■’’ and was presented, by a grand-juror of the town of Norwich, to a justice of the peace, who had jurisdiction of the offence. Several exceptions have been taken to the com*295plaint. And first, that the time of committing the offence is not alleged, with legal certainty, nor in words at full length, but in figures — ■“ On or about the 24th day of May, 1847.”
The criminal code of this state is clear in its definition of crimes, mild in its punishments, and careful in its…
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