State v. Wiles
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The demurrer of the state to the defendant’s plea of a former conviction of the same offence charged in the indictment was sustained, and the plea overruled, by the district court for Freeborn county, Page, J., presiding, who, at defendant’s request, reported the case to this court, pursuant to Gen. St. 1878, cl 117, § 11.
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
The defendant was indicted in the district court for Freeborn county, for stealing a hat, (of the value of four dollars,) in a shop. . His plea was that he had been duly convicted of the same offence by the city justice of the city of Albert Lea, in. that he had been so convicted of simple stealing of the hat, though not of stealing the same in a shop. For the purposes of this ease, it is sufficiently accurate to say that the criminal jurisdiction of the city justice of Albert Lea is the same as that of a justice of the peace. Simple larceny of property not exceeding $20 in value, is a…
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