State v. . Jennett

The “case on appeal” is so imperfect, that, in order to arrive at the facts, we are under the necessity of relying on conjecture, rather than upon His Honor’s statement. Supposing that it was a case of clerical misprision, a certiorari was sent down for a more perfect record, but the same statement is returned to us.

The statement shows that on the 31st of January, 1881, the prosecutor, Davenport, “had a black dress-coat stolen from him in Plymouth, and that on the-day of August, 1882.” “That it was made by a merchant-tailor to order; that the defendant lived in the town and was often in…