State v. Crowley
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions to the ruling of Gfoddard, J., of the superior court for this county. The superior,court having been established in 1868, Pub. Laws of 1868, c. 216, § 1, provided that at the end of the then next succeeding July term of the supreme judicial court, all original and appellate jurisdiction in criminal business vested in that court should be transferred to the superior court.
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On exceptions to the ruling of Gfoddard, J., of the superior court for this county. The superior,court having been established in 1868, Pub. Laws of 1868, c. 216, § 1, provided that at the end of the then next succeeding July term of the supreme judicial court, all original and appellate jurisdiction in criminal business vested in that court should be transferred to the superior court. Scire-facias on a recognizance entered into at the July term, 1868, of the supreme judicial court for this county, in the sum of five hundred dollars, as provided in Pub. Laws of 1867, c. 180, § 6. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
David Crowley recognized with the other defendants as his sureties at the July term of this court, 1868, in the sum of $500 for his appearance at the next January term of the superior court for Cumberland county (to which the criminal jurisdiction of this court in that county was then transferred), to answer to a complaint for the offense of keeping liquors in his shop in Portland, with intent to sell the same in violation of law. They were defaulted on the recognizance at the January term, but at May term following (the next term at which criminal-business was-transacted), on the third day…
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