State v. Lake
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Exceptions to the Court of Common Pleas. Criminal complaint appealed by the defendant to the Court of Common Pleas, and brought into this court by the defendant’s exceptions.
1Per curiam
The complaint is that, on the 24th day of July, A. D. 1887, at Tiverton, in the county of Newport, the defendant did wantonly and maliciously injure and deface a building not his own, etc. The defendant contends that the complaint is bad, because, for anything therein alleged, the building may have been in Massachusetts, and the defendant, standing in Tiverton, may have injured and defaced it by throwing stones across the boundary. We do not think so. The act complained of is the act of injuring and defacing the building, which act is alleged to have been committed at Tiverton, in the county…
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