Commonwealth v. Kozlowsky
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned on November 5, 1920, charging that the defendant on August 21, 1920, at Cambridge “did attempt to steal one automobile and in such attempt did enter said automobile and endeavor to start it but did fail in the perpetration of said attempted offence, and was intercepted and prevented in the execution of said attempted offence.”
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Indictment, found and returned on November 5, 1920, charging that the defendant on August 21, 1920, at Cambridge “did attempt to steal one automobile and in such attempt did enter said automobile and endeavor to start it but did fail in the perpetration of said attempted offence, and was intercepted and prevented in the execution of said attempted offence.” On November 9, the defendant filed a plea in abatement on the ground “ that, while the grand jury was hearing, inquiring into and examining the matter of the indictment, one Henry F. Hurlburt, Esquire, who had previously questioned this…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The defendant was tried in the Superior Court upon two indictments. In one it was charged that he conspired with others to steal automobile tires. Since he was acquitted upon that indictment, the numerous exceptions saved in reference to it need not be considered. In the other indictment, it was charged that the defendant “ did attempt to steal one automobile and in such attempt did enter said automobile and endeavor to start it but did fail in the perpetration of said attempted offence, and was intercepted and prevented in the execution of said attempted offence.”
Upon motion by the…
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