Commonwealth v. Sargent
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for perjury, as follows: “ The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their vath present, that on the eleventh day of January in the year £ our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at Boston in the county of Suffolk, one Josie Bradley was lawfully apprehended and arrested upon the charge and offence of being a common night-walker, theretofore and then committed by her, said Bradley, in said Boston; and in a convenient place, to wit, the…
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Indictment for perjury, as follows: “ The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their vath present, that on the eleventh day of January in the year £ our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at Boston in the county of Suffolk, one Josie Bradley was lawfully apprehended and arrested upon the charge and offence of being a common night-walker, theretofore and then committed by her, said Bradley, in said Boston; and in a convenient place, to wit, the station-house situated on Joy Street in said Boston, duly and legally kept in custody upon the charge aforesaid; that on said…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
1. The motion to quash was rightly overruled, The assignment of the falseness of the representation made by the defendant in his sworn statement before the commissioner, that he had personal estate in Cambridge of a value not less than fifteen hundred dollars, consisting of five horses, and divers carriages and harnesses, preceded by the words “ whereas in *122truth and in fact said Sargent did not,” &c., was a good assign ment of perjury, and the indictment could not be quashed on the ground that “no good and sufficient assignments are contained therein.” Whether the other assignments of the…
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