District Attorney for the N. Dist. v. Superior Court

The district attorney seeks, by two petitions for writs of mandamus, originally heard by a single justice of this court, to require the trial judge and the justices of the Superior Court (the justices) to take all necessary steps to effect the return to the house of correction of one Roderick and one 'Sileno, each a defendant convicted in the Superior Court in the county of Middlesex for violation of the gaming laws. The single justice reserved each case without decision for the consideration of the full court upon the pleadings, a petition to intervene, and a stipulation of facts. The…