State v. Buckley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, for a violation of the act of 1872, which provides that “ every person who shall keep a house, store, shop, saloon, or other place, where it is reputed that spirituous or intoxicating licp uors,-ale, or lager beer, are kept for sale, without having a license therefor, shall be punished, etc.tried to the jury on the plea of “ not guilty,” before Minor, J. Verdict “ guilty,” and motion for a new trial by the defendants.
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Information to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, for a violation of the act of 1872, which provides that “ every person who shall keep a house, store, shop, saloon, or other place, where it is reputed that spirituous or intoxicating licp uors,-ale, or lager beer, are kept for sale, without having a license therefor, shall be punished, etc.tried to the jury on the plea of “ not guilty,” before Minor, J. Verdict “ guilty,” and motion for a new trial by the defendants. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This motion presents two questions. The first relates to the construction of the act on which the prosseeution is brought. The defendants’ counsel asked the court to charge the jury that the state must prove that the place kept by the defendants was a place in which it was reputed that spirituous liquors were kept for sale; and also, that it was reputed that such liquors were kept for sale without a proper license therefor. The court declined to comply with the last request, and charged the jury otherwise. The instruction given was entirely correct. The manifest intention of the legislature…
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