Legal Opinion

State v. Manning

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided February 25, 1903PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Information For Rapf. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June Terra, 1902, Windsor County, Haselton, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment, guilty. The respondent excepted. A petition and a supplemental petition for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, were heard with the exceptions.

1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.

Information for rape upon a girl under sixteen years of age. The State introduced evidence tending to show the commission of the crime. The respondent denied the charge, and produced evidence tending to show that at the time alleged he was sick at a house three miles distant from the place where the crime was laid. He also introduced two letters, which purported to have been written by the prosecu-trix, and which the respondent testified he received by mail while he was in prison, after a former trial of the case. They stated, in substance, that the writer was sorry the respondent was in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Doherty v. StateSupreme Court of Vermont · 1901

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Girard Et Ux. v. Vt. Mut. Fire Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1931
  2. Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1969
  3. Auld v. CathroNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1910
  4. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. GormanIndiana Court of Appeals · 1914
  5. State of Oregon v. VaughnOregon Supreme Court · 1954

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