Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Dawn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 1, 1939PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDonahue, J.
The defendant was tried on an indictment which charged that she, with intent to procure a miscarriage, *257unlawfully used an instrument upon the body of a woman and that in consequence thereof the woman died. (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 272, § 19.) The defendant waived a trial by jury and was tried before a judge of the Superior Court who found her guilty. The case of one Wood, indicted as an accessory after the fact to the crime charged against this defendant, was tried with the defendant’s case and he also was found guilty. The defendant filed a claim of appeal and her case comes before us on a…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PolianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Commonwealth v. GalloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Commonwealth v. SpencerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Solomon v. DabrowskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. CampbellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- Commonwealth v. BonomiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
- Commonwealth v. BellinoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Bouchie v. MurrayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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