State v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for endeavoring to prevent a witness, who was recognized to appear and testify before the grand jury, from appearing and testifying. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury, April Term, 1846, — Redfield, J., presiding.
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Indictment for endeavoring to prevent a witness, who was recognized to appear and testify before the grand jury, from appearing and testifying. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury, April Term, 1846, — Redfield, J., presiding. It was alleged in the indictment, that on the sixth day of March, 1845, Chandler Poor and Stephen Goodale, Jr., were brought before a justice of the peace upon the complaint of á town grand juror, charging that the said Poor and Goodale did, on the fifth day of March, 1845, with force and arms enter a public burying ground at Middle-sex, and disinter and remove the dead…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Davis, J.
A verdict of guilty having been rendered in the county court, a motion in arrest of judgment was filed by the respondent, founded wholly upon supposed defects in the indictment. The motion was overruled in that court, and exceptions were taken and allowed ; which brings the same questions regularly before us.
*12Much of the argument at the bar has been expended upon supposed irregularities in the original proceedings against Goodale and Poor, and insufficiencies in the indictment against them prepared and laid before the grand jury. That…
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