State v. Warner
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Grandjuror’s complaint for a breach of the peace, under the statute (Gen. Statutes, tit. T2, § 123,) which provides a punishment for “every person who shall disturb or break the peace, or stir up or provoke contention and strife, by following or mocking any person with scurrilous or abusive or indecent language or gestures or noise ; ” appealed by the deféndant from the judgment of a justice of the peace and tried in the superior court, upon the plea of not guilty, before…
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Grandjuror’s complaint for a breach of the peace, under the statute (Gen. Statutes, tit. T2, § 123,) which provides a punishment for “every person who shall disturb or break the peace, or stir up or provoke contention and strife, by following or mocking any person with scurrilous or abusive or indecent language or gestures or noise ; ” appealed by the deféndant from the judgment of a justice of the peace and tried in the superior court, upon the plea of not guilty, before Butler, J. The second count of the complaint, which was the only one relied on by the state, charged the offense in the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCukdy, J.
It having been found that in the exercise of *279a malicious ingenuity one person could insult another, injure his character, wound his feelings, and provoke him to violence, in a mode against which there existed no precise and adequate provision of law, the legislature in 1865 enacted as follows, viz.: “ Every person who shall disturb or break the peace, or stir up or provoke contention and strife by following or mocking any person with scurrilous or abusive or indecent language, or gestures, or noise,” &c., “shall pay a fine,” &c., “or suffer imprisonment,” &c.
It. cannot be denied, and is not…
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