State v. Sargood
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for poisoning colts. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1903, Bennington County, Watson, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; and judgment thereon. The respondents excepted. The opinion fully states the case. The evidence that Sargood had furnished intoxicating liquor to' Blair was inadmissible, as was also- the evidence that, after the colts were poisoned, Sargood attempted to- poison Hicks and his wife.
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Information for poisoning colts. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1903, Bennington County, Watson, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; and judgment thereon. The respondents excepted. The opinion fully states the case. The evidence that Sargood had furnished intoxicating liquor to' Blair was inadmissible, as was also- the evidence that, after the colts were poisoned, Sargood attempted to- poison Hicks and his wife. These were crimes entirely disconnected from the crime charged, and the evidence tended only to prejudice the jury against Sargoo-d. State v. Smalley, 50 Vt. 736;…
1Opinion of the CourtStafford, J.
/The respondents were charged-; .with having killed with poison two colts belonging to a neighbor y^They were tried together and convicted and the case is here upon exceptions taken during the course of the trial.
Upon the part of the State a story was developed substantially as follows p/In the small village of Bast Arlington lived Sanford Hicks and his wife, occupying a house upon the street. On the same premises was a barn in which Blair, who lived near by, kept the colts under an arrangement with .Hicks. In the same village lived Sargood, one of the respondents. The other respondent,…
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