Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Kimball
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 2, 1938PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
This is a complaint to a district court, charging that the defendant “did distribute hand bills in a public street, she . . . not then and there having a permit to do so.” She renewed in the Superior Court on appeal a motion made in the District Court to quash the complaint for the reason that “the offense charged against the defendant is unknown to law.” The only point argued upon the motion is that the complaint did not set forth the ordinance, and allege that the act charged was contrary thereto. An ordinance of the city of Fall River, the Commonwealth admits, is the sole foundation of the…
2Cases cited67 opinions
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- Burgess v. Mayor of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Town of HudsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
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- Commonwealth v. GilfedderMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
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