Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 1850

State v. Leavitt

State v. Leavitt
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Decided July 1, 1850 · Shepley
32 Me. 183

State v. Leavitt

Opinion of the Court

Shepley, C. J.,

orally.—The request to the Judge assumed that, if certain acts would support a charge for larceny, they could not support an indictment for malicious mischief. But there is no such principle of law. This court has recently decided that-acts, which might have supported an indictment for arson, would support a charge for malicious mischief. The instruction requested was properly refused.

Exceptions overruled.

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