Commonwealth v. Goodwin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The defendant was indicted and tried in the municipal court, before Hopkinson, J., for an assault and battery on Cornelius Mahoney, with a bullet discharged from a revolving pistol, on the 4th day of November, 1848. It was in evidence, on the part of the prosecution, that, on the 4th of November, 1848, about eleven o’clock at night, or later, Cornelius Mahoney, the complainant, and Thomas Collins, both Irishmen, after having been together nearly the whole evening, went from…
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The defendant was indicted and tried in the municipal court, before Hopkinson, J., for an assault and battery on Cornelius Mahoney, with a bullet discharged from a revolving pistol, on the 4th day of November, 1848. It was in evidence, on the part of the prosecution, that, on the 4th of November, 1848, about eleven o’clock at night, or later, Cornelius Mahoney, the complainant, and Thomas Collins, both Irishmen, after having been together nearly the whole evening, went from Essex street in Boston down Sea street, past the house and residence of Mahoney, to the restdence of the defendant, four…
1Opinion of the CourtFletcher, J.
This was an indictment for an assault and battery upon one Cornelius Mahoney, with a bullet discharged from a revolving pistol. The government offered evidence to show that Mahoney was in the passage way, along the side of the defendant’s house, in the evening, and that while there, the defendant came from his house and ordered him away. He refused to go, and the defendant took a stick and beat him with it, saying, “ I will make you go away.” The stick broke, and the defendant then went into his house, and came out with a pistol, which he aimed and discharged at Mahoney, who thereupon…
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