Murphy v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ op error, to reverse a judgment rendered for the Commonwealth, on May 28, 1896, of the Superior Court for the' County of Essex, upon an indictment charging the plaintiff in error with embezzlement. Plea, in nullo est erratum. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in June, 1898, and afterwards was submitted on briefs to all the justices.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is a petition for a writ of error to reverse a sentence of the Superior Court for the County of Essex by which the petitioner is confined in the state prison. The plea is in millo est erratum, and therefore admits the facts well assigned in the petition. Bodurtha v. Goodrich, 3 Gray, 508, 512. Conto v. Silvia, 170 Mass. 152. From those and from the record of the Superior Court, it appears that the offences of which the petitioner was convicted were committed between July 19, 1892, and November 17, 1893, but that he was sentenced under St. 1895, c. 504, entitled “ An Act relative to…
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