Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Corcoran
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 22, 1925PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The defendant in the first case was charged in the first count of the indictment, under G. L. c. 265, § 25, with verbally threatening one Kenneth Merrill to accuse him of the crime of adultery with intent thereby to extort money from said Merrill. The Commonwealth relied on the first count only. On the second and third counts, the court directed verdicts for the defendant; he was found guilty on the first count.
In the second case, the defendant Corcoran was charged with the same offence as in the first, and the defendants Theresa Duggan, Lillian H. Reese, Thomas Moran, Theodore Bearse and J.…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DascalakisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. TuckerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- Jennings v. RooneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Commonwealth v. PiperMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
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3Cited by57 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MatchettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. BonomiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
- Commonwealth v. LongoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
- Commonwealth v. GreenbergMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Commonwealth v. HarvardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
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