State v. Edminster
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendants. Overruled. Scire facias against the defendant Edminster as principal and Ben D. Field and William A. Clark as sureties, upon a recognizance taken before the Judge of the Police Court for the City of Belfast, and in which said court said Edminster had been duly arraigned on a search and seizure warrant issued against him under the provisions of Revised Statutes, chapter 29, section 49, and upon being found guilty and sentenced had appealed.
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On exceptions by defendants. Overruled. Scire facias against the defendant Edminster as principal and Ben D. Field and William A. Clark as sureties, upon a recognizance taken before the Judge of the Police Court for the City of Belfast, and in which said court said Edminster had been duly arraigned on a search and seizure warrant issued against him under the provisions of Revised Statutes, chapter 29, section 49, and upon being found guilty and sentenced had appealed. The action was duly entered in the Supreme Judicial Court, Waldo County, and the defendants filed the following plea: "And the…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
Scire facias upon a recognizance taken before the Judge of the Police Court for the City of Belfast. The defendants pleaded nul tiel record, and the case comes to this court on exceptions to the ruling of the presiding Justice, admitting the recognizance in evidence and giving judgment for the State upon the introduction of the record of default of the defendants on said recognizance.
The defendants contend that in three respects there was a fatal variance between the allegations in the writ and the recitals in the recognizance and record.
I. That the condition of the recognizance alleged in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TeevensMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Commonwealth v. GreenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884