State v. Farrall
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint fora breach of the peace, under the 76th section of the statute with regard to crimes and punishments. After a verdict of guilty the defendant moved for a new trial, upon exceptions taken to the charge of the judge. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
The defendant was complained of and prosecuted by a single grandjuror, for a breach of the statute which provides that any person who shall disturb or break the peace by tumultuous and offensive carriage, threatening, traducing, quarreling with, challenging, assaulting and beating any other person, shall be punished by fine, or imprisonment, or both. The case on appeal was tried in the superior court, and the court was asked to charge the jury that, to constitute the offense, such conduct on the part of the defendant must be proved, as would amount to an assault or battery at common law. This…
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