State v. Sargood
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for attempting to poison Sanford Hicks and his wife. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1904, Bennington County, Poioers, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty, and judgment thereon. The respondent excepted.
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Information for attempting to poison Sanford Hicks and his wife. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1904, Bennington County, Poioers, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty, and judgment thereon. The respondent excepted. See State v. Sargood, 77 Vt. 80. The respondent also brought his petition for a new trial, under V. S. 1662, on the ground of newly discovered evidence, to the Supreme Court for Bennington County, at its October Term, 1905, which petition was then heard with the exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The statement given in the opinion in State v. Sargood, 77 Vt. 80, will serve as a sufficient statement of the case now before us, both as regards the theory of the State and what its evidence tended to show. The offence charged in the first case was the poisoning of certain colts, and the offence charged here is • an attempt to poison Sanford Hicks and his. wife. The State claimed to connect the respondent with each offence, by a motive and purpose which included both. The relation of the two cases is such that the decision in the former case sustaining the admissibility of evidence of an…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Commonwealth v. EvansMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Commonwealth v. EllisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Mitchell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1903
- State v. SargoodSupreme Court of Vermont · 1904
- State v. Intoxicating LiquorSupreme Court of Vermont · 1900
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