State v. Morris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for burglary, in the City Court of the city of New Haven, tried to the jury on the plea of not guilty, before Pardee, J. Verdict guilty, and motion for a new trial for error in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The accused was prosecuted for. burglary, while being so armed as clearly to indicate violent intentions. (Gen. Statutes, p. 499, § 7.) The evidence shows that the offense was committed about half-past six o’clock in the evening of January 1st, 1879.
Eor the purpose of showing that it was in the night season, the State was permitted to introduce in evidence, against the objection of the defense, a copy of Beckwith’s Almanac for 1879, in which the hour of sunset for that day is placed at four o’clock and forty-one minutes. There is no error in this. \
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