State v. Hurley
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for an attempt to break out of a common-jail. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the 'December, Term, 1905, Windsor County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict guilty; and judgment thereon. The respondent excepted. The respondent also demurred to the information. Demurrer overruled, and information adjudged sufficient, to which respondent excepted. Exception ordered to lie. The opinion states the case.
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Information for an attempt to break out of a common-jail. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the 'December, Term, 1905, Windsor County, Miles, J., presiding. Verdict guilty; and judgment thereon. The respondent excepted. The respondent also demurred to the information. Demurrer overruled, and information adjudged sufficient, to which respondent excepted. Exception ordered to lie. The opinion states the case. The information charged only: “That the said John Hurley at Woodstock in said County, heretofore, to wit, on the first day of November, 1905, with force and arms,'he the said John Hurley…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The respondent is informed against for attempting to break open the jail in which he was confined by-procuring to be delivered into his hands twelve steel hack saws, with an intent to- break open the jail therewith. The State’s evidence tended to show that in pursuance of an arrangement between the respondent and one Tracy, a former-inmate, Tracy attempted to get a bundle of hack saws to the respondent by throwing it to him as he sat behind the bars at an open window, and that the respondent reached through the bars and got the bundle into- his hands, but was ordered at that moment by the…
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