Com. v. Flood
| Decision Date | 28 November 1890 |
| Citation | 25 N.E. 971,152 Mass. 529 |
| Parties | COMMONWEALTH v. FLOOD. |
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
A.J. Waterman, Atty. Gen., for the Commonwealth.
J. & R.C. Brown, for defendant.
So far as appears, the confessions were voluntary, and the defendant was not induced to make them by "any fear of personal injury, or hope of personal benefit of a temporal nature," threatened or promised by any person who, as he supposed, had "some power or authority to assure to him the promised good, or to cause or influence the threatened injury." See Com. v. Morey, 1 Gray, 461. Exceptions overruled.
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