State v. Holden

On June 10, 1976, an information was filed with the District Court of Vermont, Unit No. 2, Chittenden Circuit charging that the defendant-appellant, on May 26, 1976, at Essex, Vermont, “was then and there a person who, armed with a black and silver dagger and a Daisy C02 pellet pistol, and stole in the presence of Sondra Lee Norton, said Sondra Lee Norton’s money, the subject of larceny, $350.00, all in violation of Title 13, V.S.A., Section 608(b).” On the day of trial, immediately prior to the drawing of the jury, the State moved to amend the information so that it charged that the…