Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1810

Commonwealth v. Humphries

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 15, 1810

7 Mass. 242

Cases that cite this one

14 later published cases cite this decision.

Commonwealth v. Cruz (Massachusetts Superior Court 2002)
Commonwealth v. Jones (Mass. 1972)
Commonwealth v. Novicki (Mass. 1949)
Lamore v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1943)
Commonwealth v. Richards (Mass. 1973)
Commonwealth v. Mahoney (Mass. 1954)
Commonwealth v. Weiner (Mass. 1926)
Ledvinka v. Home Insurance (Md. 1921)
Peterson v. Gittings (Iowa 1899)
Commonwealth v. Crowley (Mass. 1897)
Houston v. Commonwealth (Va. 1890)
Cluff v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance (Mass. 1866)
Commonwealth v. Clifford (Mass. 1851)
Commonwealth v. Clifford (Mass. 1851)

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Opinion of the Court

*205The result of this inquiry is, that we are not restrained by the common law definition of robbery, or by any precise form of the indictment, as to the circumstance in question; and without depart:ng from any established principle, the construction may be, what the words cited certainly admit, that a larceny committed with actual force and violence, or with a constructive force by any assault and putting in fear, is to be adjudged a robbery; and that in this respect the statute has preserved the definition of the crime, as it was described and punished by the common law

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