Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on March 6,1885, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making the complaint, at Boston, “ was and is an idle and disorderly person, and on said days and times, at said Boston, has neglected all lawful business and habitually misspent her time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming-houses, and tippling-shops, against the peace,” In the Municipal Court, and in…
Read the full summary
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on March 6,1885, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making the complaint, at Boston, “ was and is an idle and disorderly person, and on said days and times, at said Boston, has neglected all lawful business and habitually misspent her time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming-houses, and tippling-shops, against the peace,” In the Municipal Court, and in the Superior Court, on appeal, before the jury were empanelled, the defendant moved to quash the complaint, assigning,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The only question in this case is whether the complaint should have been quashed as insufficient. It follows the words of the statute, is in the form which is uniformly used, and which has been recognized as sufficient in numerous adjudged cases. The motion to quash was rightly overruled. Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 29. Commonwealth v. Sullivan, 5 Allen, 511. Commonwealth v. Doherty, 137 Mass. 245. Commonwealth v. Hart, 137 Mass. 247, n.
Exceptions overruled.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. DohertyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
3Cited by3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TayMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Commonwealth v. EllisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Titus v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924