State v. Fenn
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for theft; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Loomis, J. The information charged that at the town of New Haven, on the 3d day of May, 1873, William S. Fenn of said town, with force and arms, one certain promissory note, dated November 6th, 1872, signed by the said Fenn, for the payment of twenty-three hundred dollars, for value received, to F. J. Whittemore or order, on the first day of May,…
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Information for theft; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Loomis, J. The information charged that at the town of New Haven, on the 3d day of May, 1873, William S. Fenn of said town, with force and arms, one certain promissory note, dated November 6th, 1872, signed by the said Fenn, for the payment of twenty-three hundred dollars, for value received, to F. J. Whittemore or order, on the first day of May, 1873, and by the said F. J. Whittemore endorsed and by him delivered to Henry A. Warner, of said New Haven, a more…
1Opinion of the CourtPhelps, J.
The defendant moves for a new trial for a verdict against evidence, and for the admission by the court of certain testimony offered by the State and objected to by him, and also for sundry alleged errors of the court in its instruction to the jury.
1. We are satisfied from the testimony recited in the motion that the verdict is not so manifestly against the weight of the evidence properly admitted in the cause, as to require us on that ground to set aside the verdict.
The State was bound to prove the felonious intent by the defendant at the time of the taking of the property, that it was of…
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