State v. Gerrish
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON EXCEPTIONS. After verdict the defendant moved in arrest of judgment. The only question discussed in the opinion relates to the exceptions to the ruling of the court in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment, which was as follows; " And now after verdict and before judgment in the above entitled cause, the defendant comes and moves that judgment in said cause be arrested and that he be discharged aud allowed to go without day, for the following reasons, because: "1.…
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ON EXCEPTIONS. After verdict the defendant moved in arrest of judgment. The only question discussed in the opinion relates to the exceptions to the ruling of the court in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment, which was as follows; " And now after verdict and before judgment in the above entitled cause, the defendant comes and moves that judgment in said cause be arrested and that he be discharged aud allowed to go without day, for the following reasons, because: "1. The indictment in said cause charges no offence. " 2. Because the crime alleged in said indictment is not set forth and…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
The indictment charges the concealing of ¡stolen-goods, described in this manner; "One box containing ¡about twenty pounds of tobacco, one chest of tea, thirty pairs of .shoes and ten pairs of boots, all of great value, to wit, of the 'value of seventy-five dollars. ”
Several matters are presented under the motion in arrest which we cannot consider, because they arise outside of the ■indictment. The only point presented under the motion that ¡may be seen upon the indictment itself, is that the goods are •collectively instead of separately valued. But this does not Tender the indictment void.…
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