State v. Brown
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a complaint, preferred by Francis Chambers as a grand juror of the town of Bridgeport, to a justice of the peace, against Joseph Brown, for stealing a silver watch, which was alleged to be of the value of thirty-five dollars. After a trial before the justice, upon the plea of not guilty, the defendant was found guilty, and the value of the property alleged to have been stolen, was found to be thirty dollars.
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This was a complaint, preferred by Francis Chambers as a grand juror of the town of Bridgeport, to a justice of the peace, against Joseph Brown, for stealing a silver watch, which was alleged to be of the value of thirty-five dollars. After a trial before the justice, upon the plea of not guilty, the defendant was found guilty, and the value of the property alleged to have been stolen, was found to be thirty dollars. The defendant was thereupon bound over to the next superior court for the county of Fairfield. On the trial before the superior court, the jury found the defendant guilty of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
This case came before the superior court, on the binding over of the defendant to that court by a justice of the peace, on a complaint brought before him for the crime of theft, in which the property charged to have been stolen was alleged to be of the value of over fifteen dollars. The justice found that it exceeded that amount, and that there was probable ground for the complaint. On the trial before *317the superior court, the jury found the defendant guilty, and that the value of the property stolen was less than fifteen dollars. The question is, whether that court should proceed to render…
2Cited by1 opinion
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