Commonwealth v. Frishman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Fourteen complaints, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of the City of Boston, in two counts, charging in both counts that the defendants on May 1, 1919, did “within the judicial district of said court, with force and arms, unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assemble with thirty or more persons against the peace of said Commonwealth, and the form of the statute in such case made and provided,” and in the second count, charging in…
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Fourteen complaints, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of the City of Boston, in two counts, charging in both counts that the defendants on May 1, 1919, did “within the judicial district of said court, with force and arms, unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assemble with thirty or more persons against the peace of said Commonwealth, and the form of the statute in such case made and provided,” and in the second count, charging in addition that the defendants “while so unlawfully assembled as aforesaid, with a certain weapon dangerous to life, to wit, a…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
These complaints in the second counts charge that the defendants on May 1, 1919, “did unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assemble with thirty or more persons, and while so unlawfully assembled as aforesaid, with a certain weapon dangerous to life, to wit, a knife, did . . . wound . . . one Samuel C. Hutchins, a police officer of said city of Boston, lawfully engaged in dispersing and suppressing said unlawful assembly. . . .” The *453allegations in the second counts fully and sufficiently charge the defendants with the common law offence of a riot. Commonwealth v. Runnels, 10 Mass. 518.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RunnelsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1813
- Commonwealth v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Commonwealth v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
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- Commonwealth v. SnowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
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- Yalenezian v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
- State v. WinkelsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1939
- Commonwealth v. AbrammsMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2006
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