State v. Littlefield
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. The defendant was indicted for manslaughter, in causing the death of one George Morton. The indictment was found at the April term of the supreme judicial court in said county 1879, and contains two counts substantially as follows : I. . . . “That Samuel G. Littlefield, of Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin aforesaid, on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand e ight hundred and seventy-nine, at Lewiston aforesaid, in the county of…
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On exceptions. The defendant was indicted for manslaughter, in causing the death of one George Morton. The indictment was found at the April term of the supreme judicial court in said county 1879, and contains two counts substantially as follows : I. . . . “That Samuel G. Littlefield, of Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin aforesaid, on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand e ight hundred and seventy-nine, at Lewiston aforesaid, in the county of Androscoggin aforesaid, in and upon the body of one George Morton unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously did malee an…
1Opinion of the CourtLibbey, J.
This is an indictment for manslaughter. The indictment alleges, in substance, that the defendant on the third day of March, 1879, made an assault upon one George Morton, and inflicted upon him certain mortal wounds of which he died on the twenty-third of said month.
The defendant pleaded in bar a former conviction of simple . assault and battery upon said Morton, on said third day of March, before the municipal court of Lewiston, on the fourth day of said March.
To this plea the county attorney filed a general demurrer, which was joined, and the demurrer was sustained by the court, and the…
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