Commonwealth v. Kronick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the county of Berkshire in .January, 1906, under R. L. c. 208, § 51, charging that the defendant on May 29,1905, at North Adams did buy, receive and aid in the concealment of one thousand yards of cloth of the value of fifteen cents a yard, the property of and stolen from the Arnold Print Works, well knowing this property to have been stolen as aforesaid.
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Indictment, found and returned in the county of Berkshire in .January, 1906, under R. L. c. 208, § 51, charging that the defendant on May 29,1905, at North Adams did buy, receive and aid in the concealment of one thousand yards of cloth of the value of fifteen cents a yard, the property of and stolen from the Arnold Print Works, well knowing this property to have been stolen as aforesaid. In the Superior Court the defendant was tried before Qrosby, J. At the close of the evidence the defendant asked the judge to make five rulings which are referred to in the opinion. The form of the requests…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The defendant’s counsel have not argued that any one of their first three requests for instructions should have been given as it was framed. But it is contended that under the charge of the judge the jury may have convicted the defendant without sufficient proof of a guilty knowledge on his part that the goods in question had been stolen; that they may have found that the defendant’s knowledge of the previous larceny came to him only after whatever dealings he had with the goods in question. If this contention is well founded, manifestly the defendant has been aggrieved. There is only one…
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