State v. Frederic
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment against Charles M. Frederic and Warren M. Daggett jointly, for assault and battery. At the September term, 1877, the defendants were jointly tried, when Daggett was convicted, but the jury disagreed as to Frederic. In that trial one Orrin Leeman and Warre’n Daggett were called by the defendants and testified.
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On exceptions. Indictment against Charles M. Frederic and Warren M. Daggett jointly, for assault and battery. At the September term, 1877, the defendants were jointly tried, when Daggett was convicted, but the jury disagreed as to Frederic. In that trial one Orrin Leeman and Warre’n Daggett were called by the defendants and testified. At the next March term Frederic was again tried ; and after the two witnesses above named, again called by the defendant, had testified, the county attorney, for the purpose of contradicting them, offered a certified copy of the stenographer’s notes of their…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
The construction which defendant’s counsel seeks to give to the provision in the constitution of Maine, Art. I, § 6, clause 3, that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to be confronted by the witnesses against him, if adopted, would exclude all documentary evidence, however pertinent, forcible, safe and even indispensable it might be.
Such is not the design or effect of the provision referred to. Its object is to guard the accused in all matters, the proof of which depends upon the veracity and memory of witnesses, against the danger of falsehood or of mistake, by…
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