Legal Opinion

State v. Tobin

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided December 17, 1915PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Prosecution for allowing females to loiter upon premises of the accused where intoxicating liquors were kept for sale, brought to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Davis, Acting-Judge; verdict and. judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused.

1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.

This is a complaint for allowing women to loiter on premises where liquors are kept for sale. The statute upon which this complaint is founded provides that every licensed person who shall allow any female to loiter on his premises where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, shall be subject to a penalty, etc. Public Acts of 1909, Chap. 196, p. 1121.

The accused complains because the trial court refused to instruct the jury, as requested, that “if there is no other evidence before you than the facts that certain women entered the door of this place in question belonging to the accused, and…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. State v. RoySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1977
  2. Commonwealth v. CarpenterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
  3. Rohde v. NockSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1924
  4. State v. JasminSupreme Court of Vermont · 1933
  5. Burns v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1943

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