Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1926

Commonwealth v. Bagdasarian

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 14, 1926 · Wait

257 Mass. 248; 153 N.E. 452; 1926 Mass. LEXIS 1321

Cases that cite this one

7 later published cases cite this decision.

Commonwealth v. Lopera (Mass. App. Ct. 1997)
Commonwealth v. Mullane (Mass. App. Ct. 2005)
State v. Simpson (N.D. 1951)
Commonwealth v. Jensky (Mass. 1945)
Curtin v. Benjamin (Mass. 1940)
Commonwealth v. Rivers (Mass. 1940)
Commonwealth v. Martin (Mass. 1939)

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Opinion of the Court

Wait, J.

The testimony of the officer was properly admitted in evidence. Commonwealth v. Kimball, 7 Gray, 328.

*249If properly admitted upon any ground, the evidence could be used for any purpose, unless its use was expressly limited by the court. Pegg v. Warford, 7 Md. 582. State v. Farmer, 84 Maine, 436, 440. See Higlister v. French, 180 Mass. 299, 301. Hubbard v. Allyn, 200 Mass. 166, 171.

In Commonwealth v. Harwood, 4 Gray, 41, cited by the defendant, the statements excluded were not made upon the premises nor by an inmate. That decision has no application here.

Exceptions overruled.

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