State v. Grady
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for theft, tried to the jury in the superior court in Fairfield county, on the plea of not guilty, before Loomis, J. The information contained three counts, all describing the same property, one of which alleged it to be the property of Clapp Spooner, and the others of the Adams Express Company, a corporation.
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Information for theft, tried to the jury in the superior court in Fairfield county, on the plea of not guilty, before Loomis, J. The information contained three counts, all describing the same property, one of which alleged it to be the property of Clapp Spooner, and the others of the Adams Express Company, a corporation. Upon the trial the state offered evidence to prove, and claimed to have proved, that on the 6th day of January, 1866, the prisoners conspired in the city of New York with certain accomplices named Clark, Tristram, McGuire, and Hudson, to commit the crime charged, and for…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
We discover no error in this record, either in the assignment of errors or the motion for ajsij^trial.
The first point made is that so much of ^^^^nte existing at the time of the perpetration of this crira^MBPeclared- the penalty of the offense, had been repealed whSHiese prisoners were tried, and therefore that there was no statute under which they could be punished.
It is unquestionably true that if an offense is committed against a statute, and afterwards and before sentence the statute is repealed, any proceedings under it which were not passed and closed are arrested, as if the statute had…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State v. DaleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
- Town of Barkhamsted v. ParsonsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1819
- Gilbert v. SteadmanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1792
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