State v. Maney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for the burning of a barn; in the Superior Court in New Haven County. Tried to the jury on the plea of not guilty, before Andrews, J. The barn was the property of Francis H. Shaw, and the burning was charged to have taken place at Meriden on the evening of Sunday, April 26th, 1886. Sundry witnesses were introduced on the part of the state who testified as follows:— Matthew Crawley testified:—I reside in Meriden. I am twenty-seven years old.
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Information for the burning of a barn; in the Superior Court in New Haven County. Tried to the jury on the plea of not guilty, before Andrews, J. The barn was the property of Francis H. Shaw, and the burning was charged to have taken place at Meriden on the evening of Sunday, April 26th, 1886. Sundry witnesses were introduced on the part of the state who testified as follows:— Matthew Crawley testified:—I reside in Meriden. I am twenty-seven years old. On Sunday, the 26th day of April last, I was at the house of John Maney nearly all day. Maney keeps a saloon. That day I was not in his…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The prisoner was charged with arson. The principal witness against him was Matthew Frawley, who testified that he burned the barn, having been hired to .do so by the prisoner; that he spent the greater part of the day at his house; that in the evening he took him into his cellar, proposed to him that he burn the barn and furnished him with some whisky and with a bottle partly filled with kerosene oil; that he- took the oil from a barrel nearly empty, so that he had to tip the barrel and then could not fill the bottle ; that he fired the building without using the oil, and subsequently threw…
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