State v. Atkins
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for breach of the peace. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1904, Washington County, Stafford, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; judgment and sentence thereon. The respondent excepted. The evidence of threats which the respondent offered to show were made by the .prosecuting witness, were all made before the collision.
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Information for breach of the peace. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1904, Washington County, Stafford, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; judgment and sentence thereon. The respondent excepted. The evidence of threats which the respondent offered to show were made by the .prosecuting witness, were all made before the collision. By one witness respondent offered to show that the prosecuting witness said: “I keep that (referring to a revolver in her hand) for old George Atkins, and he will get the contents of it;” by another witness, that when the prosecuting witness was asked…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The respondent was trjed for a breach of the peace and found guilty. The breach of the peace claimed by the State was that the respondent intentionally drove his wagon against the carriage in which Mrs. Hattie Matthews, the prosecuting witness, was riding in the public highway, whereby she was thrown out and injured. The respondent’s evidence tended to show that Mrs. Matthews was responsible for the collision, and that she intentionally ran against the respondent’s wagon to do him- injury, or that on account .of the conduct of her horse, and her fast and careless way of driving it, she ran…
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