Legal Opinion

State v. Brownrigg

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 7, 1895PublishedCited by 5 opinions

On exceptions. The defendant was indicted for keeping a common nuisance and filed in bar a plea of former conviction which was overruled, and he thereupon took exceptions. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, J.

At the April Term, 1894, of this Court for Waldo county, the defendant was indicted for keeping a common nuisance " on the seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment.”

The defendant seasonably pleaded in bar a previous conviction of the same offense, and offered in evidence the records of the Court showing that at the October Term, 1893, of the Court, for the same county, he was indicted for keeping a common nuisance at the same place " on the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. RobinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
  2. Commonwealth v. DunsterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
  3. Commonwealth v. HinesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State v. McAninchSupreme Court of Iowa · 1915
  2. Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1927
  3. State v. TerroniSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1970
  4. State v. ReinhardSupreme Court of Iowa · 1926
  5. Vizcon v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000

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