State v. Landry
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. The respondent was convicted by a jury of the Superior Court, for Kennebec County, of the illegal transportation of intoxicating liquors under § 2, c. 132, of the statutes of 1891, and took exceptions as appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
On the trial of an indictment for illegally transporting intoxicating liquors from place to place within the State, the presiding judge was requested by the counsel for respondent to instruct the jury "that, in determining their verdict, they should entirely exclude from their consideration the fact that the defendant did not elect to testify, substantially as if the law did not allow him to be a witness.” The judge declined to grant the request excepting as should appear in his charge. The only allusion to the subject in the charge was a statement at its close that the testimony of the…
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