State v. Meacham
| Decision Date | 20 July 1895 |
| Parties | STATE v. MEACHAM. |
| Court | Vermont Supreme Court |
Exceptions from Caledonia county court; Tyler, Judge.
Information was filed against Mark Meacham for keeping a dog without a license. A demurrer to the information was overruled, and defendant excepts. Reversed pro forma,
W. H. Taylor, State's Atty., for the State.
Dunnett & Nelson, for respondent.
In this case the views of the judges who heard it were such that no decision could be made in regard to the sufficiency of the Information. But, inasmuch as the information of the state's attorney can be amended by his successor in office, even, both in form and in substance, the court pro forma reversed the judgment of the county court, and remanded the case to be there proceeded with.
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...complaint of his predecessor in matters of form or substance. State v. Barrell, 75 Vt. 202, 54 A. 183, 98 Am.St.Rep. 813; State v. Meacham, 67 Vt. 707, 32 A. 494. The trouble concerns the way in which it was done or The ground briefed in support of respondent's motion is that the court lack......