Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Galvin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 23, 1948PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
On October 23, 1946, the defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree on an indictment returned by the grand jury on November 16, 1945, which charged that the defendant “on the eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, did assault and beat one Sarah Rodman, with intent to murder her, and by such assault and beating did kill and murder the said Sarah Rodman.” The case is before us, after sentence, upon the defendant’s appeal accompanied by an assignment of errors, a summary of the record, and a transcript of the evidence, as required by…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Commonwealth v. DascalakisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. SturtivantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Commonwealth v. SaccoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Commonwealth v. KennedyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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3Cited by61 opinions
- Commonwealth v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. Colon-CruzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
- Commonwealth v. PaszkoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. BalliroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Commonwealth v. KiernanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1964
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