State v. Walker
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an indictment for burning the- factory of Thomas Greenbank, tried at December term, i860, Barrett J., presiding.
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This was an indictment for burning the- factory of Thomas Greenbank, tried at December term, i860, Barrett J., presiding. On trial by jury, the prosecution gave evidence tending to prove that a woolen factory building, owned by Thomas Greenbank, and situated in Gaysville, a village in the town of Stockbridge, in Windsor county, was burned in ¿he night time between the 5th and 6th of August, 1860, the fire having been first discovered about one o’clock on the morning of August 6th : The prosecution, also, gave evidence tending to show that one Brierly, sometime in June, had been employed by…
1Opinion of the CourtPierpoint, J.
The motion in arrest, we think, was properly overruled. The offence is charged in the language of the statute creating the offence and under which the indictment was found. This, as a general rule, is sufficient; there are exceptions to the rule, but this case does not come within any of them. The word manufactory has a clear and well defined meaning, and one well understood; no one could doubt what was intended when the *301indictment charged the burning of a manufactory. The meaning of the term is as well understood as that of house or barn.
The testimony introduced of the confession of the…
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