Commonwealth v. Danziger
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, under St. 1895, c. 497, entitled “ An Act to regulate the making of loans upon deposits or pledges of personal property,” to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that Max Danziger “ on the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint, at the City of Boston aforesaid, and within the judicial district of said Court (the…
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Complaint, under St. 1895, c. 497, entitled “ An Act to regulate the making of loans upon deposits or pledges of personal property,” to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that Max Danziger “ on the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint, at the City of Boston aforesaid, and within the judicial district of said Court (the said city being then and on said other days and times a city of more than ten thousand inhabitants) did engage in and…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
1. The offence is created by statute, and the complaint charges the offence in the words of the statute. As a general rule it is sufficient in such cases to charge the offence in the words of the statute. Commonwealth v. Prescott, 151 Mass. 60. Commonwealth v. Hodgkins, 170 Mass. 197. We can see no reason for departing in the present case from the general rule, and think that the complaint is clearly sufficient.
2. The statute was enacted under and by virtue of what is termed the police power, that is, the power to make and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws and statutes for…
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