State v. Reckards
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The defendant, having been convicted, before a justice of the peace, of the offence of keeping a disorderly place, appealed, upon questions of law, to the court of common pleas for Hennepin county, A. II. Young, J., presiding, where the conviction was affirmed, and he appealed to this court from the judgment of the court of common pleas.
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The defendant, having been convicted, before a justice of the peace, of the offence of keeping a disorderly place, appealed, upon questions of law, to the court of common pleas for Hennepin county, A. II. Young, J., presiding, where the conviction was affirmed, and he appealed to this court from the judgment of the court of common pleas. In taxing the costs in the latter court, the clerk allowed the costs in the justice’s court, as returned by the justice, and upon appeal to the court, the taxation of the clerk was affirmed. The offence charged is that of keeping a disorderly place on June 2,…
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
This was a criminal prosecution before a justice of the peace of the city of Minneapolis. The warrant charges that the defendant, “William Beckards, on the 2d day of June, 1873, within the corporate limits of said city of Minneapolis, * * * wilfully and unlawfully did keep * * a disorderly place, in that he did allow, suffer, and permit, in said place, quarrelling, brawls, loud and boisterous talk, fighting, and disorderly conduct, in violation of the charter and ordinances in such case made and provided,” etc. Defendant pleaded “ not guilty.” The case went to trial before a jury, which was…
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