The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-06
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MIDDLEBuRY, APRIL 6, 1858.
The Ed tor is absent.

N.Y. u IN 10 dDoCIbs
Supreme Court Of the State Of Vermont
The matter If RoBrNsoN C. Powers on hab,a a,
corpus, IN The Supreme Court at Woodsteek
on Monday, The 2lSt day Of March, 1853.
We last week stated that the above case
had been tried in the Supreme Court at
Woodstock, and that court had declared
the proceedings in the case legal. and SC
far as the 22d section of the Liquor law
is concerned, is decided Constitutional.
The facts in the case as appeared be.
fore the Justice, are these that late in
the afternoon of the sth day of March
1858, G. Robinson Powers of Woodstock
who resided in the same house with his
father, [they being the only inmates at
the time, the father being very advanced
in age. was overheard from without, u.
sing very abusive and boisterous Ian.
guage towards his father. Upon going
in he became quiet, but seemed to be,
and was in fact, very thoroughly intoxi-
Gated, and very considerably excited.
The sheriff was sent for, and in a few
moments arrived and took him iuto Gus
tody, and put him in Jail, under the pro-
vision of the 22d section of the statute
Of the last session OF the legislature, ell.
titled ian Act to prevent traffic in in
toxicating liquors for the purpose of
drinking"
On the day following. and as soon as
he became entirely sober, he was brought
before Justice Palmer and an examina-
ton had in regard to the person of whom
and the manner of his obtaining the H.
quor by which he became intoxicated.
His answcrs not being satisfactory to
the justice. he was rc-committed.
The opinions of the witnesses in re
gard to his disclosures before the justice
were altogether in conflict with each
other, and some of them with that of the
justice.
On the part OF the %rclator they tended
to show, that he had made a full and sat-
isfactory disclosure, and hat the con-
tinuance Of the Imprisonment was unne-
cessary and must ultimately prove una
vailing on that of the State, it seemed
from the testimony of the justice and
others hat his disclosures were e%vasivc.
contradictory and unsatisfactory. There
was testimony, too, from the %jailor, show
ing that he told him he knew more about
the liquor than he stated under oath,
naming where and describing of whom
he obtained it. In the argument of the
case on the part of the %reiator it was
claimed, that these admissions to the jail
Tor had reference to liquor taken from
the prisoner some days before, and not
the same upon which he became in.oxi-
Gated.
The Court were satisfied that the JUS
tice took a candid and correct view of
the disclosure made, or professcl to be
made, by the %relator that the character
of the disclosure, and the manner Of Its
being made. was such as to induce the
to believe, aud that he did be,
lisve, that the prisoner knew more of the
transaction than he saw fit to disclose.
From the Vermont Chronicle.
Decision on The Liquor Law.
Through the courtesy of Chief Justice RED
FIELD we are enable 10 lay before cur readers
the following Opinion delivered Ia the gu
preme Count of this State the last week ut
Woodstock, In D case arising In that village.
The following is n copy of my notes, drawn
up between the closing of the argument on
Tuesday evening and the coming In Of the
court on Wednesday morning, and which,
when hrst applied TO, ] declined furnishing
for publication In the newspapers Of the State,
decming it unsuitable that an opinion, upon
So important a matter, should be published,
until ! had had time to revise it, so as at least
to correct mere inadyertencies in language
and expression. But the importantly from
quarter become positively painful to me,
and ! have consented TO the publication. !
DO not 81, this even, because entertain the
Of a doubt Of the general soundDers
Of the determination Of the court. but be.
cause | am conscious that the opinion Is, In
respects, more imperfect than my
imperfect efforts Of the kind,