State v. Reed
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an information by the attorney for the state against Aaron Reed and Lorrin Peet for an aggravated assault upon Edwin M. Kellogg, upon which the defendants were brought into court upon a bench warrant.
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This was an information by the attorney for the state against Aaron Reed and Lorrin Peet for an aggravated assault upon Edwin M. Kellogg, upon which the defendants were brought into court upon a bench warrant. The defendants at the following term pleaded in bar a former conviction for the same assault, before one Harvey Turrill, a justice of the peace of the town of Kent, where the offense was committed, to which the attorney for the state replied that the prosecution on which the conviction was founded and the conviction were fraudulently procured by the defendants, and were illegal and…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
Assuming, as we must, that the state had proved that the two complaints before the justice against the defendants were made at the same time, and prosecuted together, the first of them being for an ordinary, and the other for an aggravated assault,—that the trial of the second was had at the same place and immediately after the trial of the first,—that the defendants were present at the'trial of both,—and that, on their confession, they were convicted on the first,—it is clear, that the evidence offered by the state to prove that the defendants permitted the counsel, whom they had retained to…
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