Legal Opinion

State v. Haynes

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided February 15, 1864PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Prosecutions for selling, furnishing and giving away intoxicating liquor contrary to law on a grand juror’s complaint. These cases were appealed from the judgment of the justice to the county court, —and were there tried, September Term, 1862, and the respondents convicted, Expeptions werp taken and the .cases were pass.ed to the supreme court, and at its February Term, 1868, were remanded to the county court for sentence upon the convictions, — and at the March Term of the…

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Prosecutions for selling, furnishing and giving away intoxicating liquor contrary to law on a grand juror’s complaint. These cases were appealed from the judgment of the justice to the county court, —and were there tried, September Term, 1862, and the respondents convicted, Expeptions werp taken and the .cases were pass.ed to the supreme court, and at its February Term, 1868, were remanded to the county court for sentence upon the convictions, — and at the March Term of the county court, Kellogg, J , presiding, — before sentence was passed, the attorney for the state presented copies of…

1Opinion of the Court

Poland, Ch> J.

These cases were all before the court at the last.term on exceptions taken on trial, and the exceptions being overruled, the counsel for the prosecution moved for sentence, and introduced records of former convictions for the purpose of procuring the imposition of the increased penalties for a second and third offence. Notwithstanding the course taken in the State v. Freeman, 27 Vt. 523, it was deemed the more regular and advisable course in such cases, to require all the evidence affecting the sentence even, to be introduced in the county court, (when if any question of fact…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. FreemanSupreme Court of Vermont · 1855

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. State v. BurpeeSupreme Court of Vermont · 1892
  2. Johnson v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1925
  3. The People v. WhiteIllinois Supreme Court · 1936
  4. State v. SawyerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1894
  5. State v. MaltaisSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1909

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