Commonwealth v. Ellis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints against different defendants, under R. L. c. 212, § 61, both received and sworn to in the Police Court of Lowell on September 1, 1910, each charging that the defendant “ on the first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, at Lowell aforesaid, and on divers other days and times at said Lowell, was then and there a person known to be a pickpocket and thief and then and there having no visible and lawful means of support and was…
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Two complaints against different defendants, under R. L. c. 212, § 61, both received and sworn to in the Police Court of Lowell on September 1, 1910, each charging that the defendant “ on the first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, at Lowell aforesaid, and on divers other days and times at said Lowell, was then and there a person known to be a pickpocket and thief and then and there having no visible and lawful means of support and was then and there on said days and times aforesaid at Lowell aforesaid, found prowling around a certain railroad depot in…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These two cases were argued together, and they present precisely the same questions. In each a complaint was made against the defendant under the R. L. c. 212, § 61, charging that he was “a person known to be a pickpocket and thief and then and there having no visible and lawful means of support and was then and there on said days and times aforesaid at Lowell aforesaid, found prowling around a certain railroad depot in said Lowell, whereby and by force of the statute in such case made and provided,” he “ was and still is a vaga*575bond,” etc. A motion to quash was filed in each case, in which…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- McDonald v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Commonwealth v. SnellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Sturtevant v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Commonwealth v. GravesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Ballard v. CapertonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1859
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- Alegata v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
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- Commonwealth v. BartoliniMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Clark v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1943
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