State v. Vaughan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for keeping a maternity hospital and lying-in-place without a license, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict of guilty, and appeal by the accused, before sentence, for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Information for keeping a maternity hospital and lying-in-place without a license, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict of guilty, and appeal by the accused, before sentence, for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The statute (Public Acts of 1895, p. 496) places maternity hospitals in each city or town' under inspection of certain of the municipal authorities, and punishes any person keeping such hospital who has not previously obtained a license therefor from said authorities. The complaint contained four…
1Opinion of the CourtHametjsley, J.
An appeal lies only from a judgment. It appears by the record that after conviction the court suspended sentence. In a criminal case sentence is the judgment against the accused; there can be no judgment against him until sentence is pronounced. After a verdict of “ guilty ” accepted by the court, the judgment may still be in favor of the accused, or, if against him, the sentence may be such that the judgment for that reason is erroneous. Quintard v. Knoedler, 53 Conn. 485, 487; 1 Chit. Cr. L. 663, 699; 2 Swift’s Dig. 442.
In the case at bar the verdict was a general one on four counts. It may…
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