In re Jones
Supreme Court of Vermont
Disbarment proceedings. Heard on report of commissioners to the Supreme Court for the County of Rutland at the May Term, 1897. The complaint alleged that at the September Term, 1896, of the county court for Rutland County the Hou.
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Disbarment proceedings. Heard on report of commissioners to the Supreme Court for the County of Rutland at the May Term, 1897. The complaint alleged that at the September Term, 1896, of the county court for Rutland County the Hou. John W. Rowell presided; that there were then pending in said court a large number of prosecutions in behalf of the State against various respondents named in the complaint for violation of the law against the traffic in intoxicating liquor; that said Jones was then State’s Attorney for said county and an attorney of said court; that in each of said cases such…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
At the hearing before this court, neither the respondent nor his counsel made mention of the exception taken by him to the ruling of the commissioners, excluding evidence offered by him to show the action of the county court in certain individual cases in regard to chancering bail where the respondent had been re-arrested. Hence we take no notice of the exception, further than to remark, that the commissioners did not err in holding that this evidence offered was not competent to prove a custom in that behalf in the county court.
The respondent in his statement before this court, and his…
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