Legal Opinion
DeGolyer v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 28, 1943PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
This is a petition for a writ of error to reverse the judgments in five cases in which the petitioner was sentenced to a term of not less than four, nor more than five, years in the State prison upon each of five complaints charging him with the crime of sodomy (a felony; G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 272, § 34; see G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 274, § 1), the sentences to run concurrently. The complaints were made to a District Court, and the petitioner was held for the Superior Court. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 218, § 30, as amended by St. 1941, c. 194, § 19. In the Superior Court the petitioner, being represented by…
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