Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-12-21

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ton on election day last September, and
came into county court on appeal from
Il justice court. The prosecution put on
six witnesses to prove the charge, four
of whom thought McCanlee was under
the influence of liquor that day and two
of whom didn't think so. For the de.
fense some fourteen or fifteen witnesses
were put on and they were unanimous
in the opinion that McCantee was not
drunk. MIR. Fish prosecuted and w. w.
Rider of Bristol represented the respnn-
Fdent. The pleas were very brief and
Judge Tyler only took up five minutes
with his charge to the jury. And the
| Jury then only took five minutes to come
back in with verdict OF not guilty. Me
Cantee was discharged and went on his
way rejoicing.
State vs.. George Peters was called up
next. Peters is colorcd lad from New
! Haven and was charged on indictment
with cruelty to animals in having put
some straw and other intlammable ma
terial under a horse in New Haven some
months ago and getting the mass are
/ Mr.. WildS was assigned as counsel
for Peters, aud the latter pleaded guilty,
but said that he put only hand
+ full of straw under the horse and set fire
to it because the horse was down i'm the
road and he couldn't get it up. He
wanted to get it up and to the barn.
After some consideration the court de-
cided not 10 acceI t the plea of guilty un-
der the circumstances and the trial was
set for . o'clock Saturday morning.
/ Another divorce case. ana the last one
for the term. was heard JUST before the
evening adjournment. 1t was Josephine
De,marais Y. Peter DeSmarais. and will
N..1 4.
alleged. The nartirs were married i'm
/ Burlington and lived in that civ and
other places in the State until about nine
years AGO. when the husband abandoned
his wife and never returned TO live with
her. Lattprly Mrs. Desmarai, has lived
in Middlpburv. The divorce was granted
ON the urouud allpUpd Rufton & Rut-
ton appeared for the petitioner: no de-
Tense.
Just before this case was heard a be-
ginning vas made in the ease of State
Iv.D. W. kir0mau. The respondent is
tie town liuuor agent in Bristol and the
complaint charged him with illeyally
selling IA pint of liuuor TO one Moses
CARPENTER of Lincoln some time last
summer. After about thrpp.uu;trters of
an hour spent in sitting out a sati.fac.
rory inrv. Mr.. Wilds for the defendant
objected to the cOmDIdiut on the ground
of its nsutliciencv. and the State was
given permission To make the necessary
amendments The case was then set for
trial at : O'Clock in the evening. and a
recess was taken to that hour
When court met for the evpninr soss.
ion the amended complaint in State vs..
kingman was offered and to it a demur
rer was filed by Mr.. Wihs. After a
brief argument the demurrer was sus-
tanned and the complaint was dismissed.
State V. George Peters. the colored lad.
again came up and under the ad-
vice of his counsel and after further con-
siderauon by the court it was decided TO
let the plea of guilty stand Peters was
let of easy. being given only 30 davs i'm
the House of Correction.
1t was then announced by States At
tornev Fish that there we're no more
State cases for trial. and the petit Jurors
were discharged for the term.
Sentence was then passed on the res
pondents who had been convicted during
the term and not previously sentenced.