Commonwealth v. Green
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a motion for a new trial. The prisoner, Green, and one Howard TrasJc, convicts in the state prison, were indicted at the last November term in this county (1), for the murder of Billy Williams, a negro, and a fellow-convict with them in that prison. Trial was had on the indictment at the same term; when Green was convicted of the crime of murder, and Trash was found not guilty, by reason of insanity.
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This was a motion for a new trial. The prisoner, Green, and one Howard TrasJc, convicts in the state prison, were indicted at the last November term in this county (1), for the murder of Billy Williams, a negro, and a fellow-convict with them in that prison. Trial was had on the indictment at the same term; when Green was convicted of the crime of murder, and Trash was found not guilty, by reason of insanity. On the trial several witnesses were produced and sworn on the part of the government; [*516] among * whom was one Sylvester Stoddard, who had been convicted of larceny, and was under…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The prisoner, having been convicted, by the verdict of a jury, of the crime of murder, at the last term of the Court, moved for a new trial; because, as alleged in his motion, one Sylvester Stoddard, who had been sworn as a witness on the part of government, and who had testified to the jury, had been convicted of the crime of larceny, in a court having jurisdiction of the offence, within the state of New York; whereby, as is alleged, he was rendered infamous, and for that reason his testimony could not be received in a court of justice in this commonwealth. A copy of the record of that…
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