Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1881

Commonwealth v. Brown

Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided January 29, 1881
130 Mass. 279; 1881 Mass. LEXIS 73
Commonwealth v. Brown

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Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Gilman having offered himself as a witness, his testimony was competent for and against the other defendants, as well as himself. St. 1870, c. 393, § 1, cl. 3. Commonwealth v. Nichols, 114 Mass. 285. Commonwealth v. Robinson, 1 Gray, 555. The court might permit the Commonwealth to introduce any competent evidence at any stage of the trial, even after it had once rested its Case. Commonwealth v. Blair, 126 Mass. 40.

Exceptions overruled.

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