State v. Noyes
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from the ruling, pro forma, of Tenney, C. J. Complaint founded on sections five and six of chapter thirty-six of the statutes of 1858. It was commenced before a justice of the peace, before whom the respondent pleaded “ Not guilty,” upon which issue he was convicted, and, from the conviction, appealed. In this Court, the respondent had leave to retract his plea before the justice, and pleaded a special plea in bar of the further prosecution of the complaint.
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On Exceptions from the ruling, pro forma, of Tenney, C. J. Complaint founded on sections five and six of chapter thirty-six of the statutes of 1858. It was commenced before a justice of the peace, before whom the respondent pleaded “ Not guilty,” upon which issue he was convicted, and, from the conviction, appealed. In this Court, the respondent had leave to retract his plea before the justice, and pleaded a special plea in bar of the further prosecution of the complaint. To this plea the County Attorney, in behalf of the State, demurred generally, and the respondent joined the demurrer. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Tenney, C. J.
It is charged in the complaint, that, on January 10, 1859, the defendant was superintendent of the Penobscot and Kennebec railroad, which said railroad was then and there located and situated by authority of law, and in Fairfield crossed the railroad of the Somerset and Kennebec Railroad Company, a corporation established by-the laws of the State, &c., and that, at the time stated, the passenger trains on said railroads were both due at the point of crossing the same in said Fairfield, at the same hour, to wit, at five o’clock in the…
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