Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1879

Commonwealth v. Pratt

Commonwealth v. Pratt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 27, 1879
126 Mass. 462; 1879 Mass. LEXIS 294

Counsel

J. L. Eldridge, for the defendant., G. Marston, Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth v. Pratt

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The witness, having voluntarily testified in part on the matter tending to criminate him, was not entitled to claim his privilege. Commonwealth v. Price, 10 Gray, 472. The instructions as to the responsibility of the defendant were correct. Commonwealth v. Barry, 115 Mass. 146. Commonwealth v. Carroll, 124 Mass. 30.

Exceptions overruled.

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