Commonwealth v. Russ
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the county of Suffolk on September 11, 1915, for the murder on August 23, 1915, of Emily Russ, the wife of the defendant.
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Indictment, found and returned in the county of Suffolk on September 11, 1915, for the murder on August 23, 1915, of Emily Russ, the wife of the defendant. In the Superior Court the defendant was tried before Sisk, J. Upon a motion of the defendant for a bill of particulars the Commonwealth filed the following: "Now comes the Commonwealth and answering the defendant’s motion for a bill of particulars says that the time of the alleged murder was August 23, 1915; the place was 178 Centre street in the city of Boston in said county and Commonwealth. “The means by which said crime was committed…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The defendant was indicted for the murder on August 23, 1915, of his wife, Emily Russ. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in the second degree. It is strenuously argued in behalf of the defendant that there was no sufficient evidence to support a finding that her death was caused by the defendant. His contention is that there was no adequate proof that the crime of murder was committed at all, and that consistently with every established fact the deceased might have committed suicide, and that, even if there were the requisite degree of proof of the crime of murder, there was no ground for…
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