State v. Babcock
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an indictment charging the respondent with burning his own cider-mill in Pomfret, with intent to defraud the Windsor County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in which said buildings were insured. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jnry, December Term, 1878, Barrett, J., presiding.
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This was an indictment charging the respondent with burning his own cider-mill in Pomfret, with intent to defraud the Windsor County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in which said buildings were insured. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jnry, December Term, 1878, Barrett, J., presiding. There was also, besides the exceptions taken and allowed on this trial, a petition on the part of the respondent to compel the judge who presided at that trial to allow and certify certain other exceptions ; and exceptions and petition were had together. It appears that the fire was set on June 18, 1878, on the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The respondent is indicted for burning his own building, with intent to defraud the insurance company. Mrs. Mitchell was improved as a witness, to establish the fact that some part of the property was insured for more than its value, and more than it cost the respondent; and she so testified ; but in cross-examination she disclosed that she did not, personally, know the fact; and that she only saw the note which her husband said was given for the cai-riage, at the price of f 80. The court told the jury that her testimony “ was of no account…
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