Legal Opinion
Smith v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 16, 1954PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, C.J.
The petitioner has sued out his writ of error to reverse a sentence of from eight to ten years in the State prison imposed upon him, after trial in the Superior Court at Worcester, on August 31, 1951, for breaking and entering a building in West Boylston in the nighttime on February 15, 1949, and larceny therefrom. The contention of the petitioner was and is that on February 15, 1949, he was in or near Chicago in the State of Illinois and was not at West Boylston in this Commonwealth. The single justice reserved and reported the case.
The case was fully heard by the single justice of this…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- People v. WalshNew York Court of Appeals · 1933
- Commonwealth v. NicelySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Old Colony Railroad v. WilderMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- Watkins v. Simplex Time Recorder Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Milton M. Levin v. Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- Earl v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
- Mark v. KahnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
- Commonwealth v. TaborMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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