State v. Keyes
Supreme Court of Vermont
There were two informations against the same respondent, charging nearly the same offence, filed in the court below by the states attorney of this county.
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There were two informations against the same respondent, charging nearly the same offence, filed in the court below by the states attorney of this county. The first count in the first information, charges in substance, that the grand jury had prefered a bill of indictment against one Joshua H. Howe, which was pending and tried at the time of filing the information, and that John Keezer was a material witness on the part of the state and about to be summoned to attend the trial as a witness, and that the respondent knowing these facts and that Howo was about' to be arrested and held for trial;…
1Opinion of the Court
■ The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redjtield, J.
The first question, in this case, arises upon the decision of the county court in overruling the motion to quash. That motion was made upon the ground, as we infer from the argument here, that this respondent being charged with an infamous crime, was entitled to insist upon á trial upon indictment. In support of this position the counsel rely mainly upon the seventh of the articles proposed and adopted .in amendment of the constitu*63tion of the United States, which- is in these words : “No person shall be held to answer for a capital or…
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