State v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for keeping -without a license a place where intoxicating liquors were reputed to be kept for sale; brought to the Superior Court for New London county, and tided to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Minor, J. The 10th section of the act of 1872, on which the information was founded, provides that “ every person who shall keep a house, store, shop, saloon or other place in which it is reputed that spirituous or intoxicating liquors, ale or lager beer,…
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Information for keeping -without a license a place where intoxicating liquors were reputed to be kept for sale; brought to the Superior Court for New London county, and tided to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Minor, J. The 10th section of the act of 1872, on which the information was founded, provides that “ every person who shall keep a house, store, shop, saloon or other place in which it is reputed that spirituous or intoxicating liquors, ale or lager beer, are kept for sale, without having a license therefor, according to the provisions of this act, shall be punished, &c.” On…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
On the trial of this case the counsel for the defendant requested the court to charge the jury that the reputation of the place kept by the accused must be “ well founded in fact.” The court charged the jury “ that the reputation must be an honest one, founded on the honest opinion of the neighborhood.”
It is difficult to see any material distinction between the request that was made and the charge of the court. The charge is, in substance, that the jury must be satisfied that the place kept by the defendant had the reputation in its vicinity of being a place where spirituous and intoxicating…
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