Commonwealth v. Piper
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for the murder of Mabel H. Young, at Boston in the county of Suffolk, on May 23, 1875. Trial and conviction before Colt and Lord, JJ., who allowed a bill of exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
1. The statutes conferring and defining the right of challenge in capital cases contain no provisions as to the order of time in which the right shall be exercised by the government or by the defendant. Gen. Sts. c. 172, § 4. Sts. 1862, c. 84 ; 1873, c. 317, § 1 ; 1875, c. 167. There is no general rule of court upon the subject, and all directions as to the time when and the mode in which either party shall challenge, except so far as regulated by the statutes, like other matters affecting the proper conduct and order of the trial, are within the discretion of the court. The defendant,…
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