State v. Field
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Hanson Field was indicted for manslaughter in killing one Nathaniel Field, on the 22d of Dec. 1835. The prisoner and the deceased both occupied different parts of the same house. It appeared at the trial, that the prisoner and the deceased had both been drinking on that day, and had had a violent quarrel about half an hour before tire one in which Nathaniel was killed, in which both were badly injured, the injury to Nathaniel having been inflicted with an axe.
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Hanson Field was indicted for manslaughter in killing one Nathaniel Field, on the 22d of Dec. 1835. The prisoner and the deceased both occupied different parts of the same house. It appeared at the trial, that the prisoner and the deceased had both been drinking on that day, and had had a violent quarrel about half an hour before tire one in which Nathaniel was killed, in which both were badly injured, the injury to Nathaniel having been inflicted with an axe. Afterwards, Nathaniel, who was a much younger, and more vigorous man, than the prisoner, went into a room in the part of the house…
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The opinion of the Court, after a continuance, was drawn up by
Emery J.
The defendant, on an indictment for manslaughter, for killing Nathaniel Field, on the 22d Dec. 1835, has, by the verdict of a jury, been found guilty. In tire course of the trial, evidence was proposed to be offered, that the deceased was a man in the habit of drinking to excess whenever he could get rum, and that drinking spirit of any kind uniformly had an effect to make him exceedingly quarrelsome, savage, and dangerous, that he had when in liquor frequently threatened the life of his wife, and others, and that the…
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