Commonwealth v. Tay
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, under Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 29, charging the defendant with being an idle and disorderly person. At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Fessenden, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, and also appealed from an order overruling a motion in arrest of judgment. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
1. The defendant having been arrested without a warrant, a complaint against her, under Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 29, as an idle and disorderly person, was made on the next day by . the officer who had made the arrest, and upon this complaint a warrant was issued upon which she was brought before the Municipal Court and there tried and convicted. She appealed, and was tried and convicted upon the complaint in the Superior Court. She there moved that the proceedings be dismissed because her original arrest was unlawful, and also requested an instruction to the jury that, if at the time of her arrest…
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