State v. Cameron
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment in one count alleging that the respondent, on the 9ih day of September, 1866, one horse of the value of three hundred dollars, one buggy wagon of the value of one hundred and fifty dollars, and one harness of the value of fifty dollars, of the goods and chattels of Daniel Whitcomb, feloniously did steal, take and carry axvay. Trial by jury, at the September Term, 1867, Ainsworth, Ast. J., presiding.
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Indictment in one count alleging that the respondent, on the 9ih day of September, 1866, one horse of the value of three hundred dollars, one buggy wagon of the value of one hundred and fifty dollars, and one harness of the value of fifty dollars, of the goods and chattels of Daniel Whitcomb, feloniously did steal, take and carry axvay. Trial by jury, at the September Term, 1867, Ainsworth, Ast. J., presiding. The state proved by John Pibe, Ned T. Burdsell and J. R. Wyman, that a man came to the livery stable of Daniel Whitcomb, in Rutland, on the 9th The said Pike, Burdsell and Wyman, all…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Steele, J.
I. The indictment contains but one count and charges that on the 9th of September, 1866, the respondent feloniously did steel one horse of the 1 value of three hundred dollars, one buggy wagon of the value of one hundred and fifty dollars and one harness of the value of fifty dollars, the proper goods and chattels of a person named. The jury returned a general verdict of guilty. The respondent moves in arrest upon the ground that two distinct offences are joined in one count.
It is well settled that a single count charging more than a single…
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