Thanks.
I'd already found that but it's from 2003.
CGS 30-89(b) covers minor in possession of "any alcoholic liquor." I suppose the presumption is that he had the liquor to end up with the empty even if he didn't drink it.
http://law.justia.com/codes/connecti...section-30-89/
But that's not the statute that OP reports being cited with.

