Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gardner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 26, 1938PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRtjgg, C.J.
It is provided by G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 272, §21, that "Whoever sells, lends, gives away, exhibits, or offers to sell, lend or give away . . . any drug, medicine, instrument or article whatever for the prevention of conception” shall be punished. The penalty stamps the crime thus created as a felony. Violation of this statute at a specified time and place was charged against each of the defendants in these four cases. When the cases came on for trial it was agreed that the defence consisted of the facts set forth in the written statement of facts presented by them, and that there was no other…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Sorrells v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Jacobson v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Commonwealth v. WeloskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Lambert v. YellowleySupreme Court of the United States · 1926
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Eisenstadt v. BairdSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Merit Oil Co. v. Director of the Division on the Necessaries of LifeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. DaltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Tileston v. UllmanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
- Commonwealth v. CorbettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
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