State v. Barrows
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment against Oscar E. Blaney and Mary E. Barrows for the murder, of Thomas Barrows at Kittery, on the fourteenth of November, 1883. The respondents severally pleaded not guilty. On motion of Mary E. Barrows a separate trial was granted her and she was first put on trial.
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On exceptions. Indictment against Oscar E. Blaney and Mary E. Barrows for the murder, of Thomas Barrows at Kittery, on the fourteenth of November, 1883. The respondents severally pleaded not guilty. On motion of Mary E. Barrows a separate trial was granted her and she was first put on trial. The opinion states the question presented by the exceptions. cited : B. S., c. 134, § 19 ; Const, of Maine, Article 1, § 6; Hawkins, P. C. Yol. 4, b. 2, § 95 ; Rex v. Gerber, Temple & Mew. 647 ; Rex v. Gallagher, 13 Cox, C. C. 61; Winsor v. Rex, Exch. Ch. 7 B. & S. 490 (118 E. C. L. 178) ; State v. Jones,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
Mary E. Barrows and Oscar E. Blaney were .jointly indicted for murder. She was separately tried. Blaney, without any further disposition of the indictment as to him. than his plea of not .guilty, was called as a witness against her. The bill of exceptions presents the question, whether, if two are indicted jointly, and one pleads not guilty, his testimony, if he .consents to be a witness, is admissible for the state on the separate trial •of the other defendant.
*407In this state, it is a question to be" decided upon the principles of the common law as amended or modulated by statutory provisions.
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