State v. Burns
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for keeping and selling intoxicating liquors; brought by appeal from the City Court of the city of Bridgeport to the Superior Court for Fairfield County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Culver, J. Verdict guilty, and motion in arrest of judgment for the insufficiency of the information. This motion being overruled, the defendant filed a motion in error and for a new trial. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The statute declares that “ any person,' without a license therefor, who shall sell or exchange, or offer or *150expose for sale or exchange, or own or keep with intent to sell or exchange, any intoxicating liquor, * * * shall he fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”
The public prosecutor filed an information in which it was alleged that the defendant, “on the 28th day of December, 1875, did, at the city of Bridgeport, sell and exchange, and offer and expose for sale and exchange, and did own and keep with intent to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barnes v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1850
3Cited by3 opinions
- State v. TeahanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1882
- State v. StevensNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1909
- State v. HartwickSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881