Case Name: State of Vermont. vs. Mather
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1789-12
Citations: 1 N. Chip. 18
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Vermont. vs. Mather.
Judges: 
Reporter: Chipman, N.
Volume: 1
Pages: 18–19

Head Matter:
State of Vermont. vs. Mather.
Dec. adjourned term, 1789.
Indictment for burglary — for breaking and entering the house of-, at-, on-, between the hours of twelve at night, and nine of the evening succeeding.
Indictment for burglary quashed for want of a noctanter.

Opinion:
On demurrer, exception was taken to the indictment for want of a noctanter; that it was uncertain, from . « *1 *i the indictment, whether the tacts "were committed by night or by day, and of this opinion were the Court, and quashed the indictment.