Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. D'Avella
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 3, 1959PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
This is a complaint originally brought in a District Court charging the defendant with getting the complainant with child in violation of G. L. c. 273, § 11. From a finding of guilty the defendant appealed. At the trial in the Superior Court the defendant, having waived a jury, was tried to a judge and was found guilty.
The complainant testified that she had known the defendant about ten years; that she had intercourse with him regularly in 1956; that her last menstrual period was in August, 1956; that she told the defendant of her pregnancy one month after she learned of it; that the…
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