Case Name: Rex v. Hanson
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1773
Citations: 1 Root 59
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rex v. Hanson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 59–59

Head Matter:
Rex v. Hanson.
Burglary is an offense at common law, and the statute prescribes the punishment.
Information for a burglary, laid upon the old statute, upon which Hanson was found guilty; he then moved in arrest, that since the commission of the burglary complained of, the legislature had made a new statute, altering the punishment for burglary and repealing the old law, so far as respects the punishment; and that the prisoner cannot be convicted upon one statute and punished by another.

Opinion:
Motion judged to be insufficient; for burglary is an offense at common law, and the statute only declares the punishment.