Commonwealth v. Stone
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment alleging that the defendant, at a hearing in the Probate Court holden at Worcester in the county of Worcester in this Commonwealth, procured “Laura A. Fairbanks of Worcester in said county of Worcester ” to commit perjury.
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Indictment alleging that the defendant, at a hearing in the Probate Court holden at Worcester in the county of Worcester in this Commonwealth, procured “Laura A. Fairbanks of Worcester in said county of Worcester ” to commit perjury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., one Laura A. Fairbanks, who was admitted to be the person described in the indictment as of Worcester in this Commonwealth, testified, without contradiction, that at the time she testified in the Probate Court her residence was in Brookline in the State of New Hampshire, and has been there since. The judge…
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
The gist of the charge in the indictment is, that the defendant procured Laura A. Fairbanks to commit perjury in the trial therein described. The Laura A. Fairbanks who testified in the Superior Court, it was admitted, was the same person who had testified in the Probate Court where the perjury was alleged to have been committed, nor did it appear whether there was any person of the same name who was a resident of *499Worcester. The indictment described the Laura A. Fairbanks whom the defendant was charged with suborning as “of Worcester in said county of Worcester” in this Commonwealth. This was…
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