State v. Sanford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Criminal prosecution for a second violation by the defendants of the laws relating to the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Prentice, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Criminal prosecution for a second violation by the defendants of the laws relating to the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Prentice, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The information contained three counts, the third of which alleged that in March, 1895, the defendants were convicted before a justice of the peace of having on February 28th, 1895, kept a place in Bristol in which it was reputed that spirituous and…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The defendants were sentenced under a statute which went into effect on August 1st, 1895 (Public Acts of 1895, p. 670, Chap. 331), the first section of which reads as follows:—
“ Every person convicted for a first violation of any of the provisions of the laws relating to the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars; for a second and all subsequent convictions such person shall be punished by said fine, or by imprisonment not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by such fine and imprisonment both.”
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