Riley v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an information, filed in the county court, against Rufus Riley, charging, that he, on the 8th day of September, 1841, escaped from the gaol in Norwich. The prisoner had been convicted, at the June term of the county court in 1841, of a breach of the peace, and been sentenced to be imprisoned sixty days in the gaol at Norwich, and pay the costs, taxed at 62 dollars, 34 cents.
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IN ERROR. This was an information, filed in the county court, against Rufus Riley, charging, that he, on the 8th day of September, 1841, escaped from the gaol in Norwich. The prisoner had been convicted, at the June term of the county court in 1841, of a breach of the peace, and been sentenced to be imprisoned sixty days in the gaol at Norwich, and pay the costs, taxed at 62 dollars, 34 cents. In pursuance of this judgment, he was imprisoned in Norwich, gaol, on the 12th of June, 1842. There is on the premises owned by the county of New-London at Norwich, on which the gaol is situated, a…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
The first question submitted to our consideration in this case, is, whether the confinement of the prisoner for the non-payment of the costs, after the expiration of the sixty days, during which he was sentenced to be imprisoned, was a part of his punishment, or a mere imprisonment for debt.
The statute provides, that “every person who shall be prosecuted for any crime or matter of delinquency, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall pay all the necessary costs arising in such prosecution, before he shall be discharged.” Stat. de Crimes, sect. 149. The next section of the statute authorizes…
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