State v. Gregory
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint for keeping open, between tlie hours of twelve o’clock on Saturday night and twelve o’clock on the Sunday night following, of a place in which it was reputed that intoxicating liquors were exposed for sale; brought by appeal to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury on the plea of not guilty before Hitchcock, J. Yerdict “ guilty,” and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
A statute of tliis state provides that every person who, between the hours of twelve o’clock Saturday night and twelve o’clock Sunday night next following, shall keep open any room, &c., in which it is reputed that intoxicating liquors are exposed for sale, shall be fined forty dollars. The defendant was prosecuted for a violation of that act.
On the trial to the jury the counsel for the accused claimed to have proved that the room in the complaint referred to, was in fact occupied by the accused as a dining saloon in which a number of persons who boarded with him had their meals furnished to…
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- State v. HughesConnecticut Appellate Court · 1965