Legal Opinion

Aronson v. Commonwealth

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 20, 1954PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtQua, C.J.

The petitioner excepts to an order of the single justice entered December 29, 1953, refusing to issue a writ of error looking to the reversal of a sentence to the State prison imposed upon the petitioner in the Superior Court on October 24, 1951, for the crime of unlawfully using an instrument on the body of a woman named Pitts for the purpose of procuring her miscarriage. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 272, § 19.

The error assigned, reduced to its lowest terms, is that at the trial of the present petitioner, Pitts testified in effect that the petitioner told her that an abortion would cost her $325,…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. Pyle v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  3. Commonwealth v. DascalakisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
  4. Hysler v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  5. Blankenburg v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Earl v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
  2. Lannon v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
  3. Delle Chiaie v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
  4. Guerin v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
  5. Brown v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957

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