Galeo v. State
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. At the May term, 1908, Supreme Judicial Court, York County, the grand jury returned an indictment against the plaintiff of the following tenor : "The Grand Jurors for said State upon their oath present that Joseph Gáleo of Wells in the County of York, laborer, on the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, at York, in said County of York, with force and arms did wilfully, maliciously and feloniously place upon the…
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On report. At the May term, 1908, Supreme Judicial Court, York County, the grand jury returned an indictment against the plaintiff of the following tenor : "The Grand Jurors for said State upon their oath present that Joseph Gáleo of Wells in the County of York, laborer, on the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, at York, in said County of York, with force and arms did wilfully, maliciously and feloniously place upon the track of the Atlantic Shore Line Railway Railroad, seven large stones, to the obstruction of said railroad track, whereby…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, C. J.
The plaintiff in error pleaded guilty to an indictment charging that he "did wilfully, maliciously and feloniously place upon the track of the Atlantic Shore Line Railway Railroad *479seven large stones to the obstruction of said railroad track, whereby the lives of many and sundry persons whose names are unknown were then and there endangered,” etc. Upon this indictment and plea he was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for the term of eleven years. He now brings this writ of error to reverse or annul that sentence. Inasmuch as the sentence was imposed at the May term, 1908, of this…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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