State v. Potter
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for Adultery. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury, September Term, 1878, Redfield, J., presiding. The State, to prove the marriage of the respondent, introduced in evidence a certified copy of record in the Plainfield town clerk’s office, as follows: State of Vermont, í Be it remembered, that at Plainfield in the Washington County, ss. > county aforesaid, on this 4th day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1866, Mr. Lyman Potter, of Plainfield, in the County of…
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Indictment for Adultery. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury, September Term, 1878, Redfield, J., presiding. The State, to prove the marriage of the respondent, introduced in evidence a certified copy of record in the Plainfield town clerk’s office, as follows: State of Vermont, í Be it remembered, that at Plainfield in the Washington County, ss. > county aforesaid, on this 4th day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1866, Mr. Lyman Potter, of Plainfield, in the County of Washington and State of Vermont, a farmer by occupation, and of the age of 46 years, and Mrs. Laura A. Williams, of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
The copy of record used in evidence sets forth the marriage to have been solemnized in Plainfield, in the County of Washington and State of Vermont. The statute requires that such marriage should become matter of record in the clerk’s office of said town. The copy purports to be of such a record as the statute requires; and the certificate authenticating it purports to be the certificate of a town clerk, without naming that he is town clerk of Plainfield. The maxim as to presumption in such cases is applicable and effectual. It is…
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