Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1876

Commonwealth v. Hoffman

Commonwealth v. Hoffman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 29, 1876
121 Mass. 369; 1876 Mass. LEXIS 388
Commonwealth v. Hoffman

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Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The former acquittal, upon an indictment for breaking and entering a dwelling-house and stealing therein the property of Joseph Burnett, was no bar to this complaint for stealing in the same dwelling-house at the same time the property of Harry Burnett, without proof that Joseph and Harry were the same person. Commonwealth v. Wade, 17 Pick. 395. Commonwealth v. Clair, 7 Allen, 525. Commonwealth v. Sullivan, 104 Mass. 552. 2 Hale P. C. 246.

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