State v. Orlandi

These respondents were tried together, and convicted, of a breach of the peace which consisted of an assault upon Sidney Eigg. Two others, Saldi and Ortiz, were placed upon trial at the same time, but a nolle prosequi was entered as to them, although the necessity for this procedure is not apparent.

An examination of the transcript discloses that the jury would have been justified in finding the following facts: Eigg was a granite cutter, employed in Barre. There was, at the time, a strike in progress, a fact of such notoriety that, even if it were not suggested by the record, judicial notice…