Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1880

Commonwealth v. Dunan

Commonwealth v. Dunan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 24, 1880
128 Mass. 422; 1880 Mass. LEXIS 105

Commonwealth v. Dunan

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

These exceptions cannot be sustained. The provision made by the St. of 1877, c. 200, for an autopsy by a medical examiner, does not render other competent evidence inadmissible. The inquiry as to “ the history of Bridget Walters ” does not appear to have been material. The statement of the deceased was not shown to have been a dying declaration, and was rightly rejected. Exceptions overruled.

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