State v. Rosenbaum
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for buying and selling junk without a license therefor, brought to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the jury before Cowell, J., after a demurrer to the information had been overruled pro forma ; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The accused, who is a minor, was prosecuted .and convicted in the trial court of being a dealer in junk without haying a license therefor. His defense was that the acts of buying and selling which. were proved against him, which he admitted, and which the State claimed constituted him a dealer within the meaning of the law, were done by him as the agent of his brother, who was a_ licensed junk dealer, in the city of Waterbury.- His counsel requested the court to charge the jury that if they found as a fact that the accused was so acting in a bona fide capacity, their verdict should be not…
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