Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Gallo

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided April 9, 1931PublishedCited by 89 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.

A man named Fantasia was killed on a street in Boston on a June afternoon, 1927, by a shot or shots fired from a pistol. A number of persons were in the vicinity. One Cero, running immediately from the scene of the homicide, was followed and shortly was apprehended. He was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree in November, 1927. Exceptions taken at that trial were overruled in Commonwealth v. Cero, 264 Mass. 264. At the time of the homicide Cero was employed by the present defendant and had known him about six weeks. There was testimony from which it might have been…

2Cases cited60 opinions

  1. Twining v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  2. Thompson v. UtahSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  3. Hebert v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  4. Salinger v. LoiselSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
  5. Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920

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3Cited by89 opinions

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  5. Government of the Virgin Islands v. Vidal Galdon Aquino, Government of the Virgin Islands v. Ishmael Guillerma ReyesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1967

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