State v. Stimpson
Supreme Court of Vermont
State v. Stimpson was an information for statutory-rape. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1905, Orleans County, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; judgment and sentence thereon. The respondent excepted. State v. Tee was an information for grand larceny. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1904, Tamoille County, Munson, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; judgment thereon. The respondent excepted.
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State v. Stimpson was an information for statutory-rape. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1905, Orleans County, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; judgment and sentence thereon. The respondent excepted. State v. Tee was an information for grand larceny. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1904, Tamoille County, Munson, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; judgment thereon. The respondent excepted. In each case there was a demurrer to the information. Demurrers overruled, pro forma, and ordered to lie, to which the respondents excepted. The proceeding by…
1Opinion of the CourtRoweXu, C. J.
The case against Stimpson is an information for statutory rape, and the' one against Dee is an information for grand larceny. The principal question in the former, and the only question in the latter, is, whether section 1867 of the Vt. Sts., as amended by No. 46, Acts of 1898, and No. 64, Acts of 1904, is constitutional. It provides that state’s ’attorneys may prosecute by information all crimes except those punishable by death or by imprisonment in the state prison for life. It is claimed that said section is in contravention of the declaration in the Constitution that no person can “be…
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