STATE v. BALL

No. 1275.

126 A.2d 121 (1956)

STATE of Vermont v. Bertha D. BALL.

Supreme Court of Vermont. Windsor.

October 2, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Brockway, State's Attorney, White River Jct., for plaintiff.

William F. Kissell and James E. Bigelow, Bellows Falls, for defendant.

Before JEFFORDS, C. J., CLEARY, ADAMS and HULBURD, JJ., and SYLVESTER, Superior Judge.


CLEARY, Justice.

This is a criminal prosecution for the violation of what is known as "The Blanket Act", V.S. 47, § 8468, which provides as follows: "8468. Parties found in bed together. A man with another man's wife, or a woman with another woman's husband, found in bed together, under circumstances affording presumption of an illicit intention, shall each be imprisoned" etc. The respondent pleaded not guilty; trial was by jury with a verdict, judgment of guilty...

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