State v. St. Angelo

Stephen Craig St. Angelo and Paul Richard Fairhurst were each tried and convicted before a judge and jury in the Superior Court on a joint indictment which charged each of them with breakng and entering a building in the nighttime with intent .to commit larceny. The case is now here on their bill of exceptions, and the only exception pressed is to the trial justice’s denial of their motion for a new trial.

At the trial each of the defendants rested at the close of the state’s case without either taking the stand or otherwise offering any evidence in his own behalf. Following guilty verdicts,…