Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Howard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 3, 1969PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
The defendant was found guilty by a jury on charges of (a) unlawful carnal knowledge and abuse of a female child (the cMld) under the age of sixteen and (b) incest. His appeal is before us under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. The assignments of error argued relate to the admission of testimony.
The evidence would have permitted the following findings. Molestation of the child by her father took place on the night of November 19, 1967, after the child's mother had left about 10:30 p.m. for night work at a nursing home. The cMld saw her mother on the next mormng, the 20th, before going to school but…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RussMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Commonwealth v. SinclairMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Commonwealth v. GardnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1966
- Roosa v. Boston Loan Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Commonwealth v. ClearyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BaileyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. AmiraultMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. AranaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
- Commonwealth v. DeOliveiraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2006
- Commonwealth v. ComtoisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
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