State v. Felch
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for Murder. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1917, Orange County, Butter, J., presiding. Verdict, not guilty. The State seasonably objected and excepted to certain rulings of the court in the admission of evidence, to certain rulings of the court in the exclusion of evidence, and to certain statements made by respondent’s counsel in argument to the jury, which exceptions were allowed and the case passed to the Supreme Court before final judgment.
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Indictment for Murder. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1917, Orange County, Butter, J., presiding. Verdict, not guilty. The State seasonably objected and excepted to certain rulings of the court in the admission of evidence, to certain rulings of the court in the exclusion of evidence, and to certain statements made by respondent’s counsel in argument to the jury, which exceptions were allowed and the case passed to the Supreme Court before final judgment. The respondent seasonably objected and excepted to the allowance of any exceptions by the State to rulings of the court,…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
A jury acquitted this respondent of the charge of murder, and the State brings the case here for review on exceptions taken pursuant to G-. L. 2598. The respondent also brings up an exception to the refusal of the trial court to render judgment on the verdict and order her discharge and she also files in this Court a motion to dismiss the exceptions of the State insisting, first, that by proper construction the statute referred to only gives the State the right to except to such preliminary rulings as may be made before the jury is sworn; and, second, that, if not so construed, the statute…
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