Commonwealth v. Vose
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for committing an abortion on one Mary Tallon, on November 1,1891, at Somerset. Trial in the Superior Court, before Braley, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Indictment for committing an abortion on one Mary Tallon, on November 1,1891, at Somerset. Trial in the Superior Court, before Braley, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. One Berube was called as a witness by the government, and testified through an interpreter that he went with Mary Tallón on a certain night in October, 1891, to the defendant’s house in South Somerset, and when they had entered the house a conversation in the French and English languages took place between Mary Tallón and the defendant; and that the defendant’s wife acted as interpreter for them on…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The defendant excepted to the admission in evidence of a conversation between him and the deceased person carried on through an interpreter, he speaking English and she French, and the witness understanding only French.
When two persons who speak different languages and who cannot understand each other converse through an interpreter, they adopt a mode of communication in which they assume that the interpreter is trustworthy, and which makes his language presumptively their own. Each acts upon the theory that the interpretation is correct. Each impliedly agrees that his language *395may be…
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