Commonwealth v. King
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the county of Suffolk on April 11, 1908 in thirty-one counts for larceny, as described in the opinion. On December 3, 1908, the defendant filed a motion for a statement of particulars.
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Indictment, found and returned in the county of Suffolk on April 11, 1908 in thirty-one counts for larceny, as described in the opinion. On December 3, 1908, the defendant filed a motion for a statement of particulars. On December 9 the Commonwealth by the district attorney filed a statement of particulars, and on the same day the defendant filed a motion that the Commonwealth’s statement be expunged and discharged from the records, and that the court order and direct the Commonwealth to file further particulars and specifications as requested by the defendant in his motion filed on December…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The first question presented in this case is whether there was any error in law in the action of the Superior Court in denying the defendant’s motion that further specifications be furnished by the Commonwealth, and that the specifications which upon his previous request already had been filed, should be expunged and discharged from the record. The defendant had been indicted in thirty-one counts, apparently for as many separate larcenies. He had filed a motion asking for a *383statement of particulars as to the nature and ground of each of the several crimes charged against him, as to the means…
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