Commonwealth v. Greenlaw
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for subornation of perjury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., at July term 1875, the de fendant was found guilty, and alleged exceptions to the rulings at the trial.
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Indictment for subornation of perjury. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., at July term 1875, the de fendant was found guilty, and alleged exceptions to the rulings at the trial. The certificate of the judge upon the bill of exceptions was as follows: “ I have examined the foregoing bill of exceptions, and find the same to be conformable to the truth ; and I allow the same, provided the Supreme Judicial Court shall be of opinion that I have a right in my discretion so to do, upon the following facts : No bill of exceptions was filed with the clerk in this case, until after…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The provision of the Gen. Sts. c. 115, § 7, is explicit, that bills, of exceptions shall be presented to the court within three days after the verdict in the case, or the ruling excepted to, and before the adjournment without day of the term at which the exceptions are taken, unless the court, for good cause shown, allows further time. Application for an extension of the time must be made before the time given by the statute has expired. In the present case, no exceptions having been presented to the presiding judge, or application made to him for an extension of the time for presenting them,…
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