State v. Meader
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a complaint by the state’s attorney for assault and battery and impeding one Bailey, collector of school district No. 5 in Ryegate, appealed to the county court. The complaint set the respondent up as of Ryegate, and alleged the offence to have been committed there. The warrant was returnable at the state’s attorney’s office in St. Johnsbury.
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This was a complaint by the state’s attorney for assault and battery and impeding one Bailey, collector of school district No. 5 in Ryegate, appealed to the county court. The complaint set the respondent up as of Ryegate, and alleged the offence to have been committed there. The warrant was returnable at the state’s attorney’s office in St. Johnsbury. The justice’s record showed that the respondent was brought before him and pleaded not guilty and demanded a trial by jury, whereupon the justice proceeded to hear the proofs and allegations, and decided to take jurisdiction of the case, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, J.
In the trial in the county court, the respondent offered to prove that Bailey, the man upon whom he was charged with making the assault for which he was being tried, was a quarrelsome, fractious man, and the proof was excluded. The offer lacked a necessary element to make the evidence admissible, and that was', that the fact was known to the respondent that he offered to prove. In Harrison v. Harrison, 43 Vt. 417, evidence of the same character as that offered here, accompanied with the offer to show knowledge on the part of the defendant of…
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