Commonwealth v. Buckingham
Boston Municipal Court
This was an indictment found by the Grand Jury for the county of Suffolk, at the November term, 1823, of the Municipal Court for the city of Boston. The cause was continued, and afterwards assigned for Friday, January 9th, 1824. The court opened at 9 o’clock, A. M. INDICTMENT.
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This was an indictment found by the Grand Jury for the county of Suffolk, at the November term, 1823, of the Municipal Court for the city of Boston. The cause was continued, and afterwards assigned for Friday, January 9th, 1824. The court opened at 9 o’clock, A. M. INDICTMENT. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.—Suffolk, to wit: At the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, begun and holden at said Boston, within, and for the county of Suffolk, on the first Monday of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on…
1Opinion of the Court
After the indictment was read, the attorney for the commonwealth stated to the jury, that it contained three distinct counts, each of which was a distinct, independent indictment, and consequently that a conviction or acquittal on either, would not amount to a conviction or acquittal on either of the others.
Messrs. Jefferson Clark, Ezekiel Morse, John S. Ellery, Bryant P. Tilden, Alexis Eustaphieve, and William Coffin, were examined as witnesses on the part of the prosecution, to prove the publication, and that the articles complained of had reference to Mr. Eustaphieve.
It appeared, that the…