Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Soaris
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 6, 1931PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPiebce, J.
On May 22, 1930, after a trial on two indictments, the defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree of Angelina Rodriques and Matilda Silva. The case is before this court under St. 1925, c. 279, as amended by St. 1926, c. 329,,on an assignment of errors.
At the trial the evidence, which was not in great dispute, warranted the jury in finding as proved beyond a reasonable doubt the following facts: The defendant had met Angelina Rodriques at Christmas, 1928, and again in April, 1929. He lived in New York and she in Lowell. During the interval they corresponded. In April, 1929, the…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. FeciMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
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