State v. Knowles
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by defendants. Indictments for burglary in the night time. The respondents were each indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of one John Vehue in'the night time, a person being then and there lawfully therein, with intent, etc., and then and there in said dwelling-house, sixty pounds of pork of the value of six dollors, etc., did take, steal and carry away, etc., on the eighteenth day of April, 1903. The two indictments were the same except the names…
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Exceptions by defendants. Indictments for burglary in the night time. The respondents were each indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of one John Vehue in'the night time, a person being then and there lawfully therein, with intent, etc., and then and there in said dwelling-house, sixty pounds of pork of the value of six dollors, etc., did take, steal and carry away, etc., on the eighteenth day of April, 1903. The two indictments were the same except the names of the parties. Both parties were tried together by agreement. Fred D. Bartlett, one of the respondents who was a…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The respondents were severally indicted for burglary and tried together by agreement. The exceptions present two questions which are insisted upon in argument.
I. Against objection the docket entries and also complaints in two criminal prosecutions, one against each of the respondents, which had been commenced before the Municipal Court, and brought into the Supreme Judicial Court by appeal, were introduced by the State to affect the credibility of the respondents. The docket entries show that the cases were appealed and brought into this court, where the respondent in each case retracted his…
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