Commonwealth v. Stuart
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned on August 10,1907, originally in fourteen counts, charging in the first count that Charles S. Stuart and twelve other defendants named had joined in a general conspiracy to steal the property of divers persons, and in the other counts charging them with the larceny of certain property of the persons therein named.
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Indictment, found and returned on August 10,1907, originally in fourteen counts, charging in the first count that Charles S. Stuart and twelve other defendants named had joined in a general conspiracy to steal the property of divers persons, and in the other counts charging them with the larceny of certain property of the persons therein named. The case was tried before Bond, J. Before the jury were impanelled the defendant Charles S. Stuart filed a motion to quash the indictment. Thereupon the district attorney nol prossed all the counts except the first and the tenth, and the judge denied…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
1. As the district attorney entered a ml pros upon all but the first and tenth counts of the indictment, the defendant’s motion to quash has not been argued, and need not be considered.
Several exceptions were taken by this defendant to the admission of evidence. We discuss those which have been argued by his counsel.
2. The government contended that one White, the owner of a small grocery, had been induced to sell his store and business to Gaffney, one of the conspirators, and to take as security for the price thereof a second mortgage upon property in Holliston, which was represented to be of…
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