Pettes v. Commonwealth
Decision Date | 21 January 1879 |
Citation | 126 Mass. 242 |
Parties | Spencer Pettes v. Commonwealth |
Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
Argued November 25, 1878
Suffolk. Writ of error to reverse a judgment rendered for the Commonwealth at March term 1874 of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk, for the transaction of criminal business upon the following indictment:
The record set forth that the indictment was found and returned into court by the grand jury, at February term 1872, and then continued to March term 1872, when the plaintiff in error was arraigned and pleaded not guilty; that the indictment was then continued from term to term to January term 1873, when the plaintiff in error was again arraigned, and for trial put himself upon the country, and the Commonwealth did the like by its attorney; that a jury was duly empanelled and returned a verdict of not guilty on the first count of the indictment, and guilty on the second count; that, after various continuances, the plaintiff in error was sentenced, for the offence set forth in the second count of the indictment, to imprisonment in the state prison for the term of ten years.
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