Commonwealth v. O'Neil
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for the murder of Hattie E. McCloud, on-January 8,1897, at Buckland, by strangulation. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., Fessenden and Sheldon, JJ., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions to the admission of certain evidence, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The bill of exceptions in this case does not purport to give the evidence in full, but only so much of it as bears upon the questions of law. No question in regard to the weight or sufficiency of evidence is presented, but only the question whether the testimony objected to was competent for the consideration of the jury in connection with the other circumstances of the case.
Among the circumstances relied on by the Commonwealth was the alleged possession by the defendant, immediately after the murder, of money which the deceased had in her possession when she was attacked. There was testimony…
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