State v. Emery

DUFRESNE, Chief Justice.

On the evening of July 29, 1971, at about 8:00 p. m., in the Town of Standish, Maine, one Harold E. Gallant, while tending his small antique business shop, was approached by a male person whom he later identified as the defendant. This person, according to Mr. Gallant’s testimony, had a cash register in used condition which he wanted to sell and purportedly had in the automobile parked in the Gallant driveway at the time. It was then daylight and, after some conversation lasting about three minutes, the man, convinced of Mr. Gallant’s disinterest in purchasing that…