Commonwealth v. Chiovaro
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for murder, consisting, besides the usual caption and signatures, of the following allegations: “ The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their oath present, that Nicolo Infantino, otherwise called Nick, otherwise called the boy, and Antonio Ardito, otherwise called the Greek, on the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at Boston aforesaid, in and upon one Joseph F. Frye, feloniously, wilfully…
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Indictment for murder, consisting, besides the usual caption and signatures, of the following allegations: “ The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their oath present, that Nicolo Infantino, otherwise called Nick, otherwise called the boy, and Antonio Ardito, otherwise called the Greek, on the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at Boston aforesaid, in and upon one Joseph F. Frye, feloniously, wilfully and of their malice aforethought did make an assault; and that the said Infantino and the said Antonio a certain pistol,…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
The indictment upon which the defendant is held begins with charging against one Infantino and one Ardito the murder of Joseph F. Frye, setting out all the facts and all the legal conclusions necessary to a proper indictment for the crime of murder with technical accuracy and precision. It then recites over again all the facts which are necessary to constitute the crime of murder, and alleges that the acts charged were committed by the two persons before named. It then concludes by *492alleging that the present defendant and two other persons named, “ before the said felony and murder was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. GloverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Commonwealth v. WhitneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
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- Sturtevant v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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