Gross v. Rice
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Dissenting opinions by Appleton-, C. J., and Barrows, J. SyhoNDS, J. concurring. ON FACTS AGREED. Trespass to tbe person, and false imprisonment.' In a plea of the case, for that the defendant at said Tliomaston, on tbe tenth day of March, 1873, with force and arms, unlawfully imprisoned the defendant in the state’s prison in said Thomaston, and kept and held him imprisoned therein during all the time inclusive of that day and between that day and the sixteenth day of May,…
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Dissenting opinions by Appleton-, C. J., and Barrows, J. SyhoNDS, J. concurring. ON FACTS AGREED. Trespass to tbe person, and false imprisonment.' In a plea of the case, for that the defendant at said Tliomaston, on tbe tenth day of March, 1873, with force and arms, unlawfully imprisoned the defendant in the state’s prison in said Thomaston, and kept and held him imprisoned therein during all the time inclusive of that day and between that day and the sixteenth day of May, 1873, then next, making in all sixty-eight days, and subjected the plaintiff, during all that time, to hard labor, to the…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
The sentence was for four years. For good conduct, the prisoner had credits which gave some deduction from the sentence. For bad conduct, he was in solitary confinement one hundred and forty-four days. The punishment in solitary confinement was at various times and for various causes. Among the causes were disturbance, laziness, insolence, noise, breaking rules of workshop, assault upon a fellow convict, disobedience, refusal to work, threats, spoiling work, and laughing and talking. He was not discharged, until he had served his sentence and sixty-eight days imprisonment additional thereto.…
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