State v. McMann

Respondent was tried by jury in the District Court of Vermont, Unit No. 4, Essex Circuit, and found guilty of a nighttime attempt to break and enter the dwelling house of one Sawyer, in which personal property the subject of larceny was situated, with intent to commit larceny. As ground of error, he here asserts a lack of sufficient evidence to support a finding of larcenous intent, error in denying his motion for directed verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict based upon such lack, and the ineffectiveness of his trial counsel. Trial counsel was, of course, not the attorneys now…