CLEARY, Justice.
This is a prosecution for breach of the peace, brought in Caledonia municipal court under V.S. 1947, § 8458. Trial by jury, verdict of guilty. The case is here on the respondent's exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict of not guilty at the close of the evidence.
The respondent is a hardware merchant in Hardwick and on July 1, 1950, sold fifteen dynamite caps to Anthony Washburn, a boy fifteen years old, who put them...
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