State v. Hill
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON exceptions from superior court, Cumberland. (Indictment.) "State of Maine. Cumberland, ss. At the superior court, begun and kolden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty : "The grand jurors for said State, upon their oath, present, that Living L. Hill of Saco, in the county of York, on the twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred…
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ON exceptions from superior court, Cumberland. (Indictment.) "State of Maine. Cumberland, ss. At the superior court, begun and kolden at Portland, within and for the county of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty : "The grand jurors for said State, upon their oath, present, that Living L. Hill of Saco, in the county of York, on the twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at Portland, in the county of Cumberland, unlawfully, knowingly and designedly did falsely pretend to…
1Opinion of the CourtWaltoN, J.
The defendant has been indicted, tried, and convicted of fraudulently obtaining possession of a horse, by a purchase on credit, by falsely pretending that he was the owner of valuable and unencumbered real estate. He claims a new trial:
First, for the alleged illegal admission of evidence. The exceptions state that at the trial one John L. Best testified in relation to the note given for the horse, and was asked by the government whether the note had been paid, and was allowed to answer that it had not, notwithstanding the answer was objected to by the defendant. We think the answer was…
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