State v. Curtiss
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Prosecution for selling liquor without a license, brought before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, where the accused was tried by a jury before Greorge W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The ease is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTokkance, J.
The complaint in this case charged the accused with selling a quart of whiskey to one Roberts, without having a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors.. Upon the trial of the case in the court below, the State offered evidence tending to show that Roberts purchased the whiskey in the bar-room of the Woodbury House, a hotel in the town of Woodbury, of which the accused was the proprietor, “of one Israel Perro, then and there in charge of said hotel and bar-room, as the agent, clerk and bar-tender of the accused,” who “ was there in the place instead of the accused and acted for…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Barnes v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1849
- Commonwealth v. MorganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Commonwealth v. HolmesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Morse v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1825
- State v. CorriganSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1855
3Cited by11 opinions
- State v. McKeeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
- Beckanstin v. Liquor Control CommissionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1953
- State v. LougiotisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1943
- State v. SaloneConnecticut Superior Court · 1961
- State v. LamperelliSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
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