Commonwealth v. Ponzi

On September 11, 1920, the grand jury for the county of Suffolk returned twenty-two indictments against the defendant Charles Ponzi: eleven charging him with larceny in various counts, ten with being accessory before the fact of larceny, and one with conspiracy to steal. On July 14, 1922, Ponzi moved that the cases be set down for trial. The record does not show the action of the court on the motion, nor does it show- that any order was made that all cases were to be tried at one time. On October 23, 1922, the defendant was placed at the bar for trial on twelve of the twenty-two indictments.…