State v. Rowley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an information against Alpha Rowley and Chauncey Baldwin for a conspiracy to cheat and defraud Benjamin Tucker, jun. and Dudley Case, filed, by the state’s attorney, at the term of the superior court for Litchfield county, in August, 1836. The information alleged, That on the 10th of December, 1835, Rowley was possessed of a tract of land in Winchester, on which there was a quantity of wood and timber growing, of the value of 200 dollars, and no more; that Baldwin,…
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This was an information against Alpha Rowley and Chauncey Baldwin for a conspiracy to cheat and defraud Benjamin Tucker, jun. and Dudley Case, filed, by the state’s attorney, at the term of the superior court for Litchfield county, in August, 1836. The information alleged, That on the 10th of December, 1835, Rowley was possessed of a tract of land in Winchester, on which there was a quantity of wood and timber growing, of the value of 200 dollars, and no more; that Baldwin, at the same time, owned and possessed a quantity of lumber and logs, of the value of 100 dollars, and no more; that…
1Opinion of the Court
Bissiíli, J.
At the August term, 1836, of the superior court, for Litchfield county, the attorney for the state filed an information against the defendants for a conspiracy. At the February term following, and after the statute of limitations had confessedly run upon the offence charged, he moved to add a new count to the information ; and whether he shall be permitted to do this, is the first question reserved for the advice of this court.
That the public prosecutor may amend an information, at any time before trial, is too well settled to admit of dispute; and, even during trial, it has often…
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