State v. Main
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Gbandjuror’s complaint, brought to a justice of the peace, and appealed by the accused to the superior court; tried in the superior court before Carpenter, J. The jury found the accused guilty, and she moved for a new trial for errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Gbandjuror’s complaint, brought to a justice of the peace, and appealed by the accused to the superior court; tried in the superior court before Carpenter, J. The jury found the accused guilty, and she moved for a new trial for errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The complaint charged that the accused, “ at New Haven, on the 1st day of January, 1862, and on divers other days between that day and the date of the complaint, did unlawfully keep and maintain a certain house situated in Union street in said town, and known as No. 87 in said street, which said house then and there was,…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
We think the positions assumed by the counsel for the accused are all of them untenable.
1. It is claimed that the statute upon which the prosecution is founded is unconstitutional and void. In reply to this it might be sufficient to say, that if the statute is void for any *574cause, and if, as the counsel contends, it is no offense at common law to keep and maintain a house reputed to be a house of bawdry and ill fame, he should have moved in arrest of judgment, and may bring a writ of error, but a motion for a new trial is not his remedy. Minor v. Mead, 3 Conn., 289 ; Beers v. Broome, 4 id.,…
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- Commonwealth v. WheelerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1806
- State v. BenhamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829
- Cadwell v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1846
- Minor v. MeadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1820
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