State v. Stebbins
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for theft. The prisoners were charged with having feloniously taken an iron safe or chest belonging to an express company, from the railroad cars of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, in which it was being conveyed, with a large amount of bank bills and other valuable property contained in it.
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Information for theft. The prisoners were charged with having feloniously taken an iron safe or chest belonging to an express company, from the railroad cars of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, in which it was being conveyed, with a large amount of bank bills and other valuable property contained in it. The information contained four counts, in the third of which the place where the felony was committed was described as “ between Westport and Norwalk, .two of the stations of the New York and Norwalk Railroad Company.” The defendants pleaded severally not guilty. Upon the trial,…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
The first ground upon which a new trial is claimed, is that after the jury were impanneled and sworn and the trial commenced, the information was amended by erasing the word Norwalk in the description of the railroad company in the third count, and inserting in its place the word New Haven.
We are not satisfied that this alteration was of any import*471anee in itself. The former word was used only as a part of the description of the place where the offense was committed, and as the place was more fully described as being between Westport and Norwalk, we think it was sufficiently described…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. WolcottSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1851
- United States v. PorterU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1808
3Cited by27 opinions
- People v. CloughCalifornia Supreme Court · 1887
- Ziman v. WhitleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- Aaronson v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1920
- Solander v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1873
- State v. BetsallWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1877
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