Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ballou
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 3, 1966PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, C.J.
The defendant was convicted by a judge sitting without jury on an indictment charging him with unlawfully carrying “on Ms person a certain firearm, to wit: a revolver . . ..” Gr. L. c. 269, § 10, as amended. The judge stayed proceedings and has reported three questions of law to tMs court. Gr. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 278, § 30.
The first question is, “did the allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress in the Charlestown District Court followed by a dismissal of the complaint by the same court constitute a bar to a subsequent indictment and trial of the defendant in the Superior Court for the…
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