State v. Neagle
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Complaint, for search and seizure of intoxicating liquors, on appeal from the municipal court of Bath. On the trial.of the appeal, the government introduced the judge of the municipal court as a witness, who was allowed, against objection, for substance and form, to read his docket entry of a former conviction of respondent for a similar offense.
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On exceptions. Complaint, for search and seizure of intoxicating liquors, on appeal from the municipal court of Bath. On the trial.of the appeal, the government introduced the judge of the municipal court as a witness, who was allowed, against objection, for substance and form, to read his docket entry of a former conviction of respondent for a similar offense. After the verdict of guilty, the defendant moved to set it aside for informality in the drawing of the jurors who sat in the trial. In the hearing of the motion, it appeared in evidence that before the jurors named therein, who were…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
Upon the trial of one charged with having in his possession intoxicating liquors with intent to sell the same in violation of law, the record of a previous conviction of a similar offense is admissible in evidence upon the question of intent. So decided in State v. Plunkett, 64 Maine, 534.
And the docket entries may be read to the jury, when a more extended record has not been made. Leathers v. Cooley, 49 Maine, 337. Pierce v. Goodrich, 47 Maine, 173. Longley v. Vose, 27 Maine, 179. Read v. Sutton, 2 Cush., 115. Pruden v. Alden, 23 Pick., 184.
Irregularity in the drawing of jurors is not a…
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