Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Locke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 4, 1956PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
The jury could have found these facts. About eleven o’clock in the morning of July 16, 1954, one Annie Gavin, a store keeper, went to the branch office of the National Shawmut Bank on West Broadway in South Boston and withdrew $860 in bills and a ten dollar roll of quarters. She put the money in a black handbag, twisted the strap of the bag around her wrist, and left the bank to walk to her store at the corner of Dorchester and West Second streets, also in South Boston. She had proceeded along Dorchester Street to a point where she was about to cross Bolton Street when a man (not the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DomanskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
- Commonwealth v. TrefethenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Commonwealth v. MadeirosMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Commonwealth v. PolianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- State v. FrostSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Commonwealth v. FreemanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. PaszkoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. BaileyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. ConnollyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
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