State v. Randolph
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an indictment against the prisoner, Isaac Randolph, for murder. The cause was tried at New Haven, before the superior court, October term, 1855. On the trial, Maria Tuttle and Delia Sayres were offered as material witnesses, and testified in behalf of the state.
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This was an indictment against the prisoner, Isaac Randolph, for murder. The cause was tried at New Haven, before the superior court, October term, 1855. On the trial, Maria Tuttle and Delia Sayres were offered as material witnesses, and testified in behalf of the state. For the purpose of affecting their credibility,' the defendant offered in evidence a record of a court holden by a justice of the peace, for the county of New Haven, showing that they were convicted of being common prostitutes, under the fifty-third section of the third chapter of the act concerning prisons. To this evidence,…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
By a certain statute law of the state, it is provided, that sturdy beggars, vagabonds, vagrants, night-walkers, and, among others, drunkards and common prostitutes, may be sentenced to the work-house for a period, not exceeding sixty days. Maria Tuttle and Delia Sayres, being witnesses, and having testified against the prisoner, his counsel offered in evidence a copy of the record of a judgment, by justice Bennet, of their conviction, under the statute, as common prostitutes, and claimed to read it, for the purpose of discrediting their evidence. The court refused the offer, and it is this…
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