Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1859

Sayles v. Fanning

Sayles v. Fanning
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1859 · Shaw
79 Mass. 538

Sayles v. Fanning

Opinion of the Court

Shaw, C. J.

The examination was sufficient; the magistrate having examined the complainant on oath carefully and fully to all the material averments. The paper is entitled “ the accusation and examination.” No law requires that the result of the examination shall be committed to writing by the magistrate or by any one in his presence.

As to the discrepancy between the complainant’s statement of time in her examination, and in her subsequent complaint to the court of common pleas, it is a difference of statement, which affected only her credit. Exceptions overruled.

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