Legal Opinion

State v. Gilligan

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided December 17, 1901PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Indictment charging the defendant with the offence set forth at length in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.

The indictment in this case was found under Gen. Laws'R. I. cap. 279, § 23, as amended by Pub. Laws cap. Y36, which provides that any person who shall maliciously or wantonly in any way injure or deface any building not his own, or break the glass or any part of it in any such building shall he imprisoned, etc. The offence charged was that the defendant did maliciously and wantonly injure and deface the building of one Hannah .Isherwood and did then and there break a part of the glass in said building by then and there throwing a bar of iron' through a plate glass window of the value of forty…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. State v. MooreSupreme Court of Missouri · 1875
  2. People v. FisherCalifornia Supreme Court · 1876
  3. People v. SimpsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1875

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. State v. ManciniSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1971
  2. United States v. WeemsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2018
  3. State v. WilburSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1975
  4. United States v. SabettaDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 2016
  5. State v. LombaSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2012

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