State v. Bruce
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was an indictment, it would seem, under the twenty-sixth section of Rev. Stal. c. 154. The indictment is referred to in the bill of exceptions, but no copy is found in the papers, and the bill does not show the offence charged, further than may be implied from the requests for instruction, and the instructions given. The opinion of the Court gives all the material portions of the exceptions. '
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was by
Shepley J.
It appears from the bill of exceptions, that on the trial of the defendant upon an indictment, containing two counts, he was found guilty upon the first and not guilty *72upon the second count. It states, that, “ at the same term, .on motion of the defendant and by consent of the county attorney, the Court ordered, that the verdict .be set aside and a new trial granted.”
The defendant having been put upon his trial again at a subsequent term, contended that he could not be tried again upon the second count. The Court decided otherwise; and he was upon the…
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