Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1818

Commonwealth v. Trask

Commonwealth v. Trask
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1818
15 Mass. 277

Commonwealth v. Trask

Opinion of the Court

The grand jury gave information that the said Caleb had been imprisoned for dangerously wounding one Byram Sampson, of which wound the said Byram was still languishing, and it was uncertain whether he would not die of the same wound. Whereupon, the said Caleb, being set to the bar, upon the motion of Morton, Attorney-General, was remanded to the prison, to be there detained until it should probably appear that the danger was over (1)

See 2 Hale’s Hist. P. C. 134.

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