Commonwealth v. Meehan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints, to the Police Court of Newton, the first charging the defendant, on March 2, 1897, and the second, on September 14 of the same year, with the larceny of certain tools, the property of Frederick W. Smith and William A. Packard. At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before War dwell, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The first exception is to the admission of an answer of the witness Jewett in regard to the handwriting upon a certain piece of wrapping paper. He had testified that he had directed a boy, who was then and had been for some months in his service, to wrap up two files which he had just sold, and to direct the package by writing on the back of it the name of the purchaser. He also had testified that the paper produced was that in which the files were wrapped. In regard to the question whether he knew the boy’s handwriting, he answered that he thought he did. He was then asked if the name upon…
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