Commonwealth v. Dagle

A judge in the Superior Court on April 26, 1962, found that the defendant is a- sexually dangerous person, and ordered him committed to the treatment center at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridge-water, for an indeterminate period of from one day to life. Gr. L. c. 123A, § 6. The defendant excepted to the denial of a motion to dismiss and to the refusal of the trial judge to give certain rulings.

The defendant had been indicted in 1960 for indecent assault and battery upon children under fourteen years of age, unnatural acts with a child under sixteen years of age, and…