State v. Ball

This is a criminal prosecution for the violation of what is known as "The Blanket Act”, V. S. 47, §8468, which provides as follows: "8468. Parties found in bed together. A man with another man’s wife, or a woman with another woman’s husband, found in bed together, under circumstances affording presumption of an illicit intention, shall each be inprisoned”, etc. The respondent pleaded not guilty; trial was by jury with a verdict, judgment of guilty and sentence. The judgment, sentence and excecution were respited and stayed and the cause passed to this Court. It is here on the respondent’s…