State v. Wheeler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a complaint preferred by a grand juror of the town of New Haven, to a justice of the peace, against Stephen Wheeler, for keeping spirituous liquors with intent to sell the same in violation of the statute of 1854, entitled “ an act for the suppression of intemperance.” A trial was had before the justice, and the defendant found guilty.
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This was a complaint preferred by a grand juror of the town of New Haven, to a justice of the peace, against Stephen Wheeler, for keeping spirituous liquors with intent to sell the same in violation of the statute of 1854, entitled “ an act for the suppression of intemperance.” A trial was had before the justice, and the defendant found guilty. From this decision he appealed to the superior court, and the cause was tried at the term of said court holden at New Haven, in September 1855. Upon the trial the defendants’ counsel requested the court to instruct the jury that the statute upon which…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The information in this case is founded
on the ninth section of the act for the suppression of intemperance. (Rev. Stat., 821.) That section provides that no person under the penalties therein prescribed, shall own or keep any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or any mixed liquor of which a part is spirituous or intoxicating, with intent to sell the same in violation of that act. The only question before us is, whether that provision is constitutional.
If the legislature has, in this act, transcended its constitutional powers, in its interdiction of the sale of liquors, the owning or keeping…
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