Legal Opinion

State v. Kerr

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 2, 1918PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Indictment under It S., Chap. 128, Sec. 1. Upon being arraigned, respondent filed a general demurrer to the indictment which was joined in by attorney for State. The presiding Justice, ruling pro forma, overruled the demurrer giving to the respondent the right to plead over. To the ruling of the court, respondent filed exceptions. Case stated in opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.

This case involved an indictment under the statute for cheating by false pretenses. To this indictment the defendant filed demurrer which was overruled. To this ruling exceptions were taken by the defendant with the right to plead over, if the exceptions were overruled. The indictment, in part, reads as follows:

“The Grand Jurors for Said State upon their oath present that Theodore Kerr of Westbrook, in said County of Cumberland, on the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, at Windham, in said County of Cumberland, feloniously, designedly…

2Cited by10 opinions

State v. CampbellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
Kennie v. City of Westbrook &/Or Nationwide Mutual InsuranceSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1969
State v. TalbotSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1964
Ellis v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1971
State v. DeschambaultSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1963

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