Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, returned at July term, 1888, of the Superior Court for the county of Nantucket, in twenty-two counts, for forging and uttering certain writings, each of which was described as a “discharge for money,” and purported to be a bill rendered to the town or county of Nantucket by various persons or firms, for personal services, for rent of post-office box, and for articles furnished to the town or county, and to have been duly receipted upon payment thereof.
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Indictment, returned at July term, 1888, of the Superior Court for the county of Nantucket, in twenty-two counts, for forging and uttering certain writings, each of which was described as a “discharge for money,” and purported to be a bill rendered to the town or county of Nantucket by various persons or firms, for personal services, for rent of post-office box, and for articles furnished to the town or county, and to have been duly receipted upon payment thereof. After the former decision, reported 147 Mass. 585, the case was heard by Hammond, J., and the defendant alleged the following bill…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
This case was before the court upon a bill of exceptions at a former sitting, and was reported in 147 Mass. 585. We have no desire to consider further the questions then *341raised, nor to modify the conclusion then reached. It comes before us now upon a motion in arrest of judgment, and the effort is, not merely to obtain a revision of the decision upon the questions of law arising on the whole record, but to introduce evidence of extraneous facts alleged to have occurred before the trial, and thereupon to raise new questions of law.'
It is an established rule of practice that a motion in arrest…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Grubb v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1861
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