State v. Verrill
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON Exceptions. Indictment, founded upon Public Laws of 1865, c. 829,* of which the following is a copy, omitting the merely formal parts : — "That Luther J. Yerrill and Clifton Harris, both of Auburn in said county, laborers, on the seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-seven, at Auburn aforesaid, in the county of Androscoggin aforesaid, in and upon the body of one Susannah Kinsley, feloniously, wilfully and of their malice…
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ON Exceptions. Indictment, founded upon Public Laws of 1865, c. 829,* of which the following is a copy, omitting the merely formal parts : — "That Luther J. Yerrill and Clifton Harris, both of Auburn in said county, laborers, on the seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-seven, at Auburn aforesaid, in the county of Androscoggin aforesaid, in and upon the body of one Susannah Kinsley, feloniously, wilfully and of their malice aforethought, did make an assault, aud her, the said Susannah Kinsley, then and there feloniously, wilfully and of…
1Opinion of the CourtDakNORTh, J.
A verdict of "guilty oí murder in the first degree” having been rendered against the respondent, he now moves in arrest of judgment, and assigns several causes therefor. The first four are substantially the same, and may be considered as one. The objection to the indictment, assigned in these several causes, is that it does not set out " fully and plainly, substantially and formally, the manner in which and the means by which the alleged murder was effected or accomplished.” Formerly, in capital cases, this was hold to be necessary, though in crimes of a lower *412grade it was not. From an…
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