Case ID: me_75/html/0590-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Appleton, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State of Maine vs. Margaret Bennett.
    Cumberland.
    Opinion February 13, 1884.
    
      Exceptions.
    
    Exceptions will not be sustained when it is apparent that the excepting party ■ could not have been injured by the rulings to which exceptions are taken.
    On exceptions from superior court.
    An indictment under ft. S., c. 17, §1, for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance.
    
      Ardon W. Coombs, county attorney, for the state.
    
      George TI. Townsend, for the defendant.
   Appleton, O. J.

Nothing is better settled than that exceptions will not be sustained when it is apparent that the excepting party could not have been injured by the rulings to which exceptions are taken.

A witness was called, to whom the following questions were pi’oposed and the answers excluded. "Have you been arrested charged with theft ? Have you ever been arrested charged with any crime ? Have you ever been arrested charged with stealing ?”

Subsequently, during the progress of the trial, the witness was asked if he was " the same Frank R. Adams who was convicted in the municipal court of Portland, June 24, 1881, for larceny,” to which he answered "I was confined there.” He was then asked " are you the same one.?” to which he replied, "I suppose I am.”

It is immaterial to consider the propriety of the rulings first made inasmuch as the questions first proposed were all substantially answered without objection before the close of the trial.

Exceptions overruled.

Walton, Virgin, Peters, Libbey and Symonds, JJ., concurred.