Barber v. Commonwealth

This is a petition brought under G. L. c. 211, §§ 3 and 4A, 1 asking the court to exercise its supervisory power to stay a second so called “small loans” trial, already in progress, until thirty days after the determination of pending appeals taken after the conclusion of the first “small loans” trial. The single justice reserved and reported the case without decision.

The petitioners are individual and corporate defendants charged with offering or paying, or soliciting, or receiving bribes, or conspiring to do so, under numerous indictments returned in May of 1964 by a special grand jury.…