Commonwealth v. Dennis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for attempting to commit suicide. In the superior court, before the jury were empanelled, the defendant filed, ana Dewey, J., overruled, a motion to quash the indictment, for the reason, among others, that it did not set forth any crime punishable by the laws of the Commonwealth. On the trial the defendant was found guilty, and alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
In this Commonwealth, the whole matter of punishments for all attempts to commit an offence prohibited by law, when no express provision is otherwise made, has been subject to revision by statute. Gen. Sts. e. 168, § 8. The degree of punishment for the attempt is measured by the character of the of-fence attempted and the punishment attached to it; all offences punishable by death, imprisonment and fine are included, and are alone included; and it is provided that in no case, where the offence is punishable by imprisonment, shall punishment for the attempt exceed one half of the greater…
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