Legal Opinion

State v. Tucker

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided July 18, 1902PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Information for breach of the peace, for an. assault, andl for resisting and obstructing an officer in the discharge of his-duty, brought to the Town Court of Orange and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before-Hubbard, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty upon two-counts, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.

The complaint in this case contains three counts. The first charges the accused with a breach of the peace, by tumultuous and offensive carriage, noise and behavior. The second charges a breach of the peace, on the same day named in the first count, by assaulting and striking Thomas KennedjL The third count alleges that the accused, on the same-day, resisted and obstructed Thomas Kennedy while he was, in the discharge of his duty as a policeman. The accused was acquitted on the second count, and convicted on the-other two.

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. TullerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
  2. State v. FarrallSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. State v. HarrisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1960
  2. Rumely v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
  3. Yavis v. SullivanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1950
  4. Miller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1913
  5. Vasquez v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1907

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