State v. Williams
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On caso certified for the advisory opinion of this court. The defendant was indicted, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Passaic, for keeping a disorderly house.' The indictment was in the usual form. Upon the trial, the court charged the jury, among other things, that selling beer on Sunday constituted a disorderly house, if tlie jury believed that the defendant made it a practice to do so whenever lie had customers.
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On caso certified for the advisory opinion of this court. The defendant was indicted, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in and for the county of Passaic, for keeping a disorderly house.' The indictment was in the usual form. Upon the trial, the court charged the jury, among other things, that selling beer on Sunday constituted a disorderly house, if tlie jury believed that the defendant made it a practice to do so whenever lie had customers. To this part of the charge, and also to other parts (which are referred to in the opinion of the court) the defendant’s counsel objected; and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Justice.
Any place of public resort, whether an-inn, a dwelling house, a storehouse, or any other building, or garden, is a public nuisance, in which illegal practices are-habitually carried on, or when it becomes the habitual resort of thieves, drunkards, prostitutes, or other idle, vicious, and disorderly persons, who gather together there for the purpose-of gratifying their own depraved appetites, or to make it a rendezvous where plans may be concocted for depredations-upon society, and disturbing either its peace or its rights of' property.
Such collections of persons can have no…
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