State v. Keena
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for arson filed by the State’s Attorney in the Superior Court for New Haven County, in lieu of an information brought by the city attorney of Meriden charging the same offense, upon which the accused had been bound over, tried and convicted, but which this court, on the defendant’s appeal, held defective.
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Information for arson filed by the State’s Attorney in the Superior Court for New Haven County, in lieu of an information brought by the city attorney of Meriden charging the same offense, upon which the accused had been bound over, tried and convicted, but which this court, on the defendant’s appeal, held defective. State v. Keena, 63 Conn., 329. Upon the trial to the jury upon the substituted information, before Prentice, J., the accused was again convicted and appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
An information charging the defendant with the crime of arson was filed in the Superior Court by the State’s Attorney, while the defendant was in the custody of the court to answer to a former information charging the same crime, but with a different allegation of the ownership of the building burned. The defendant was tried, convicted and. sentenced. Upon being put to plead, and at different stages of the trial, he objected in due form to the validity of the information. The appeal assigns error in overruling these objections, and the defendant claims that the judgment should be set aside…
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