Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. MacKenzie
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 22, 1975PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The defendant was found guilty under G. L. c. 273, § 11, which provides that “Whoever, not being the husband of a woman, gets her with child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” Prior to the trial he moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that G. L. c. 273, § 11, “on its face” denies the defendant equal protection of the laws guaranteed by arts. 1 and 10 of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution and by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The motion to dismiss asserted that § 11 imposes criminal sanctions on a man found guilty of…
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