Brown's case

Court: Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Date filed: 1824-06-15
Citations: 3 Me. 177
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observed that they were not aware that the statute of 31 Hen. 8 had ever'been adopted in this country ; and that from the early colonial legislation on the subject, it seemed improbable that it had been. The offence therefore was not indictable except under the statute of this State; and this remedy is limed to one year from the commission of the offence, which term had expired before the finding of the indictment.

Judgment arrested.