Commonwealth v. Pease
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an indictment against the defendant for compounding a felony; taking as a consideration or reward therefor, a promissory note, signed by the party who was guilty of the felony, for the sum of one hundred dollars.
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This was an indictment against the defendant for compounding a felony; taking as a consideration or reward therefor, a promissory note, signed by the party who was guilty of the felony, for the sum of one hundred dollars. At the trial, which was had before Jackson, J., at the last April term in the county of Hampden, the facts were proved, as alleged in the indictment; but it further appeared in evidence that the promissory note had not been paid, and that the promisor having since died, it had been presented to his executor for payment, by a person to whom the defendant had endorsed it…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The question of evidence, and that on the motion in arrest of judgment, are in this case substantially the same. [ * 93 ] If the taking of a promissory note, as a reward *"for compounding a felony, is punishable at common law, then an indictment, which sets forth that fact, is good,
The objection is, that, the facts alleged and proved do not constitute the offence anciently called theft bote, now more commonly *79compounding a felony; and the definition of the offence by Sergeant Hawkins, and other writers on the criminal law, has been resorted to in support of the objection. What is that…
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