Commonwealth v. Dies

The three defendants were tried together on separate indictments, each of which charged that the defendant “ did assault Gertrude Butler, with the intent to commit rape upon her; and her, the Gertrude Butler, did . commit rape upon ” in the county of Barnstable on August 16, 1921.

The defendant Andrews seasonably filed the following plea: “ And now comes Joseph Andrews and says that the time of the commission of the alleged offences, he was under the age of seventeen years, a juvenile, and the court has no jurisdiction of the person of the defendant nor has it any jurisdiction of the subject…