Green v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of error, filed March 21st 1866, praying for the reversal of the judgment rendered against the petitioner on an indictment for murder.
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Petition for a writ of error, filed March 21st 1866, praying for the reversal of the judgment rendered against the petitioner on an indictment for murder. The first count of the indictment charged that Edward W. Green, “ on the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, with force and arms, at Malden, in the county aforesaid, in and upon one Frank E. Converse, feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an assault; and that the said Edward W. Green a certain pistol, then and there charged with gunpowder and one leaden…
1Opinion of the CourtBigelow, C. J.
The petitioner in this case stands convicted *163upon his own confession in open court of the crime of murder in the first degree, and is now awaiting the execution of sentence of death awarded against him on such conviction at a term of this court for the county of Middlesex, held at the city of Lowell on the third Monday of April 1864. Under the provisions of Gen. St. c. 146, § 13, he made application by petition to a “justice of this court on the 21st day of March last, for a writ of error on said judgment.” His petition is accompanied by an assignment of certain errors, which he alleges to…
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