State v. Reed
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment for the murder of John Ray, who left his house in Medway Plantation about six o’clock in the afternoon of the twentieth day of September, 1870, to search for a missing cow that was pastured near Reed’s premises, and never returned alive.
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On exceptions. Indictment for the murder of John Ray, who left his house in Medway Plantation about six o’clock in the afternoon of the twentieth day of September, 1870, to search for a missing cow that was pastured near Reed’s premises, and never returned alive. On Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of September, 1870, his body was found buried in a hole in a secluded spot, upon a little island in the Penobscot River, the corpse covered with rotten wood and brush, and bearing marks of cruel and brutal violence; so severe a wound upon the left temple that the eye protruded two-thirds of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
Tbe exceptions in tbis case are made up in accordance with a custom somewhat modern in its origin, and of increasing frequency, wbicb bas nothing to recommend, but very much to condemn it. We have a full report of tbe testimony, a large part of wbicb is immaterial; also tbe entire charge, while tbe exceptions are of tbe briefest and most general character, without specification of tbe points to be raised, or tbe grounds of objection.
Tbis practice would ordinarily seem to serve no other purpose than that of a drag-net thrown over all tbe proceedings of a trial, with an apparently desperate…
2Cited by25 opinions
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- State v. McKeoughSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
- State v. EstesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- Jackson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1969
- Kaufman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
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