Commonwealth v. Wong Chung
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for murder in the second degree returned by the grand jury in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on November 2, 1903. At the trial in the Superior Court before White, J., a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree was returned against the defendants Wong Chung and Charlie c£in, a third defendant who had been indicted with them not having been apprehended.
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Indictment for murder in the second degree returned by the grand jury in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on November 2, 1903. At the trial in the Superior Court before White, J., a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree was returned against the defendants Wong Chung and Charlie c£in, a third defendant who had been indicted with them not having been apprehended. Thereafter the defendants filed a motion for a new trial on account of the alleged disqualification of one of the jurors, and requested certain rulings of law. The judge refused to make the rulings requested and…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The defendants, after a conviction of murder in the second degree, filed a motion for a new trial on account of the alleged disqualification of one of the jurors. It appeared at the hearing that the juror enlisted in the army of the United States in the War of the Rebellion, and that the record in the office of the adjutant general of the Commonwealth shows him marked as a deserter in the year 1862. It was admitted, at the hearing on the motion, that this entry in the record is true. ' It was also shown that on June 22, 1868, he was convicted of breaking and entering a shop and stealing goods…
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