Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ellis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 30, 1947PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The indictment in ten counts charges the defendant, on ten different days in the first quarter of the year 1944, with statutory rape upon a female child in fact about twelve years of age. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 265 § 23. After the decision in Commonwealth v. Ellis, 319 Mass. 627, the case was tried to a jury. The defendant was found guilty upon each count, and was sentenced to the State prison. His appeal raises various questions of evidence. The case comes here on his appeal, with a summary of the record, a transcript of the evidence, and an assignment of errors, under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 278,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Commonwealth v. GreenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Glover v. CallahanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Commonwealth v. KosiorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. KingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. GallantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. GallisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Commonwealth v. WelcomeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
- Commonwealth v. CliffordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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