State v. Ames
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment, presenting that the respondent, upon the sixth day of July, 1874, entered into a recognizance before Hiram Bass, a trial justice of Knox county, for his appearance at the then next ensuing term of this court, to answer to a complaint charging him with the offence of being a common seller of intoxicating liquors; that one William H. Trim was, at the same time, recognized to appear as a witness in that case for the state; “and the jurors aforesaid,…
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On exceptions. Indictment, presenting that the respondent, upon the sixth day of July, 1874, entered into a recognizance before Hiram Bass, a trial justice of Knox county, for his appearance at the then next ensuing term of this court, to answer to a complaint charging him with the offence of being a common seller of intoxicating liquors; that one William H. Trim was, at the same time, recognized to appear as a witness in that case for the state; “and the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present, that the said John N. Ames, at Camden aforesaid, on the sixth day of…
1Opinion of the CourtDankorth, J.
This is an indictment which comes before us upon demurrer. It is objected that no crime is charged therein; or, if charged, that it is not sufficiently set out.
That it is a crime known to the common law, to induce a witness to absent himself from a court where he is legally bound to appear, to give testimony upon a criminal process there pending, is too clear for argument, and too well settled to require the citation of authorities.
It, is perhaps equally well settled that an attempt to do the same thing, though it is not accomplished, will subject the offender *388to an indictment. 1 Wharton’s…
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