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34 Me. 235

State v. Boies

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1852

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1852-07-01

On Exceptions from the District Court, Rice, J. Indictment for a riot.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1981

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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Decided 1852-07-01

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¶1The opinion of the Court, Shepley, C. J., Tenney, Howard and Appleton, J. J., was delivered by

Shepley, C. J.,

¶2orally.;— The indictment charges, that the defendant and others, being assembled, did, in a violent and tumultuous manner, obstruct and break up a justice’s court, held by one Barrett, to the terror of the people. To break up a court in such a manner was an unlawful act whether Barrett was or was not commissioned, and whether he was or was not proceeding lawfully in the business before him.

¶3The allegations of the indictment sufficiently charge the offence of a riot. Exceptions overruled.

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