Commonwealth v. Hassan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the county of Essex on January 19, 1919, charging that Imbrian Hassan and Suleman Hassan on October 28, 1918, assaulted and beat Alii Hassan with .intent to murder him and by such assault and beating did kill and murder him.
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Indictment, found and returned in the county of Essex on January 19, 1919, charging that Imbrian Hassan and Suleman Hassan on October 28, 1918, assaulted and beat Alii Hassan with .intent to murder him and by such assault and beating did kill and murder him. In the Superior Court, the defendants were- tried jointly before Callahan, J. The district attorney filed a statement that he would no further prosecute the indictment against either defendant in so far as it charged him with murder in the first degree. At the trial, there was evidence that shortly before the shooting Suleman Hassan had a…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The defendant was indicted jointly with one Suleman Hassan for the murder of Alii Hassan, a brother of the defendant. He was found guilty of manslaughter and Suleman Hassan was acquitted. There seems to have been little if any controversy at the trial concerning the fact that Alii Hassan was killed by the shot of a revolver feloniously fired by one of the *30■other of the two'persons indicted. Each attempted to put the blame upon the other.
During the argument of the district attorney, counsel for the defendant handed thirteen written requests for instructions to the clerk of the court, who…
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