Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1875

Commonwealth v. Fields

Commonwealth v. Fields
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 3, 1875
119 Mass. 105; 1875 Mass. LEXIS 80

Commonwealth v. Fields

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

In the absence of proof to the contrary, the jury were authorized to find that the offence of which they found the defendant guilty was the same as that of which he had been convicted in the Police Court. Commonwealth v. Burke, 14 Gray, 81. Commonwealth v. Carroll, 15 Gray, 412. Commonwealth v. Carr. 111 Mass. 423. Exceptions overruled.

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