State v. Main
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for a violation of the statute relating to “peach j'ellows,” brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Upon the trial of this cause, the defendant claimed that the statute (Public Acts of 1893, Chapter 216) upon which the prosecution was based, was unconstitutional for various reasons, and asked the court to instruct the jury as follows: “The jury are the judges of the law bearing upon the case as well as the facts, and they are entitled, and it is their duty, to consider the legal questions regarding the constitutionality of the statute in question, and if they con-. scientiously believe that the statute is unconstitutional upon any of the grounds claimed, then they should acquit the…
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