State v. Chisholm

The defendant, after a trial to the jury, was convicted on two counts of furnishing premises for illegal consumption of alcoholic liquor in violation of § 30-1002 of the General Statutes and has appealed. The defendant claims that since § 30-100, the so-called bottle club statute, would require a guilty finding against the person who maintains or operates premises upon which a third person was drinking alcoholic liquors, without requiring any showing of knowledge on the part of anyone so *567designated of such drinking, therefore § 30-100 is unconstitutional in that it gives the state the power…