Supreme Court of Connecticut, 1858

State v. Maine

Supreme Court of Connecticut · Decided March 15, 1858

27 Conn. 281

Cases that cite this one

24 later published cases cite this decision.

State v. Cottrill (W. Va. 1888)
McBrien v. Warden (Conn. 1966)
Singer v. United States (Supreme Court of the United States 1965)
Commonwealth v. Allen (Delaware County Court of Quarter Sessions 1930)
People v. Henderson (Mich. 1929)
Commonwealth v. James Hall (Pa. Super. Ct. 1926)
Commonwealth v. Rowe (Mass. 1926)
Commonwealth v. Hall (Philadelphia County Court of Quarter Sessions 1926)
People v. Micalizzi (Mich. 1923)
State v. Fowler (Mont. 1921)
State ex rel. Warner v. Baer (Ohio 1921)
Hoffman v. State (Ohio 1918)
In re Dawson (Idaho 1911)
State v. McNamara (Mo. 1908)
People v. Warren (Mich. 1899)
State v. Carman (Iowa 1884)
People v. Lyons (Ill. Cir. Ct. 1884)
People ex rel. Lyons v. Hanchett (Ill. Cir. Ct. 1884)
United States v. Taylor (United States Circuit Courts 1882)
United States v. Taylor (United States Circuit Courts 1882)
United States v. Taylor (United States Circuit Courts 1882)
United States v. Taylor (United States Circuit Courts 1882)
United States v. Taylor (District Court, D. Kansas 1882)
State v. Worden (Conn. 1878)

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Opinion of the Court

This was the case of an information against the defendant for placing a nuisance in a highway, and was brought to the superior court for the county of Tolland by appeal; where, on the plea of not guilty, the cáse was, by agreement of the parties, tried by the court, which found the facts and reserved the questions of law arising thereon for the advice of this court. The judges were of the opinion that, as no statute conferred on the superior court the power to try this or any other criminal charge, excepting through the intervention of a jury, the court below could not legally try the case in the manner in which it had done, and would not be able to render a legal judgment on the facts, if the advice of this court was given upon them. They therefore refused to entertain the case.

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