Barth v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an information against Charles Barth, preferred originally by a grand-juror of the town of New-Haven, to a justice of the peace.
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This was an information against Charles Barth, preferred originally by a grand-juror of the town of New-Haven, to a justice of the peace. The information alleged, That at New-Haven, on the 1st day of September 1846, and on divers other days and times between that day and the date of the information, Charles Barth of said town of New-Haven, not being a taverner, with force and arms, did keep a certain store or shop, situate in Church street in said town, for the purpose of selling wine or spiritous liquors, to be drank thereat, against the peace, of evil example and contrary to the statute in…
1Opinion of the CourtStorks, J.
The statute, for a violation of which the plaintiff in error was convicted, prohibits any person or persons, except taverners, from keeping “ any house, store, shop, or other place for the purpose of selling any wine or spiritous liquor, to be drank thereat.” Stat. of 1846.p, 46. The information charged, that he, “on &c., at &c., not being a taverner, kept a certain store or shop, situate in Church street, in New-Haven, for the purpose of selling wines or spiritous liquors to be drank thereat.”
The first question which arises on the assignment of errors, respects the sufficiency of this…
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