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67 Me. 598

State v. Heselton

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 31, 1877

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1877-05-31

On exceptions. Indictment for keeping a drinking house and tippling shop.

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Decided 1877-05-31

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1948

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Walton, J.

¶1The plea in abatement is bad for duplicity. It tenders an issue upon at least three separate, distinct and independent propositions of fact. First, it avers that the county of Somerset had not been legally divided into jury districts. Second, that the towns of Anson and Palmyra had in their jury-box more names than the law allows. Third, that in the towns of Madison and St. Albans, no notice of the drawing of the jurors was given. Such a plea is clearly bad. State v. Ward, 68 Maine, 225. State v. Ward, 64 Maine, 545. Bacon’s Abridgment, Abatement, (P). Stephen on Pleading, 253.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

Appleton, C. J., Dickerson, Barrows, Danfokth and Peters, JJ., concurred.
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