Commonwealth v. Hope

Shaw C. J.

delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is, whether the appeal taken in the present *2case by the defendant, ought to be allowed, ft appears that in the Municipal Court, he was indicted upon four distinct charges of housebreaking in the daytime. In each of these cases, the indictment charges that he, either by himself, or with others, broke and entered a dwellinghouse in the daytime, with an intent to steal, and did then and there steal, take and carry away certain property, specially described. Each therefore contains a substantive charge of housebreaking with a…