State v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment based upon No. 1, s. 17 of tbe acts of 1874, charging the respondent as an insurance agent with the larceny of money from the Fire Association of Philadelphia, a fire insurance company, having its home office in Philadelphia, Penn. Trial by jury, December Term, 1881, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty.
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Indictment based upon No. 1, s. 17 of tbe acts of 1874, charging the respondent as an insurance agent with the larceny of money from the Fire Association of Philadelphia, a fire insurance company, having its home office in Philadelphia, Penn. Trial by jury, December Term, 1881, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty. As to the 2d question discussed by the court: The State, to prove the appointment of the respondent as agent of the Fire Association as alleged in the indictment, offered N. P. Bowman, the respondent’s former partner, as a witness, who testified that Bowman &…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Taft, J.
I. It is claimed that the statute under which the respondent stands indicted is unconstitutional. Its constitutionality was affirmed by this court in a cause entered at the October Term, 1878, in Caledonia County, against this same respondent.
II. The respondent and one Bowman, as partners under the name of Bowman & Hopkins, were agents of the Eire Association, an insurance company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania. The indictment makes' no mention of the firm, but was found against the respondent alone, in relation to business done in…
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