State v. Hanley
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a grand juror’s complaint for a breach of the peace, under §1, ch. 116, of the Gen. Sts., preferred to the city court of the city of Burlington.
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This was a grand juror’s complaint for a breach of the peace, under §1, ch. 116, of the Gen. Sts., preferred to the city court of the city of Burlington. The complaint alleged that the respondent, on the 18th day of March, 1874, at, &c., “ did disturb and break the public peace by tumultuous and offensive carriage then and there to the public exhibited, by threatening, quarrelling with, challenging, assaulting, beating, and striking Joseph Langlois, of said city; which said offensive carriage of the said Martin, exhibited as aforesaid, did disturb and break the public peace,” contra formam…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J. I.
It is seldom that this court has been called to sit in judgment on the first point of exception taken in this case. The judicial and professional understanding on the subject is significantly evinced by this, in view of the fact that the omission of the names of the witnesses, entirely or partially, has been of frequent occurrence from the earliest days of the statutory provision in this respect. In the thirty-five years of my connection with the profession, this is the second instance that I now recollect of the point having been made…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. NortonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1873
3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. ArchibaldSupreme Court of Vermont · 1887
- State v. PrattSupreme Court of Vermont · 1882