Vaughn v. Congdon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for false imprisonment. Pleas, general issue, and special plea in bar. Heard on demurrer to the special plea, September Term, 1881, Rutland County. Yeazey, J., presiding, sustained dhe demurrer.
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Trespass for false imprisonment. Pleas, general issue, and special plea in bar. Heard on demurrer to the special plea, September Term, 1881, Rutland County. Yeazey, J., presiding, sustained dhe demurrer. The plea alleged that, at the time of the supposed trespasses, the defendant was a justice of the peace, duly commissioned and qualified; that the acts complained of were done by him as such justice without malice; “that, heretofore, to wit, oh the 12th day of November, A. L>. 1880, W. H. Bond, the grand juror of the town of Dariby, in the county of Rutland, exhibited to the defendant as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rowell, J.
The statute provides that complaints and prosecutions for theft shall be commenced within six years after the commission of the offense, and that if a complaint, an information ■or indictment is brought, had, commenced, or prosecuted after the time limited as aforesaid, “ such proceeding shall be void and of no effect.” The complaint exhibited to the .defendant on November 12, 1880, alleged the offense to have been committed on September 20, 1874, more than six years before the bringing of the complaint, and the (prest-ion is, whether the…
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