Commonwealth v. Andrews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The indictment, which was found at March term, 1804, charged that one Amos Tuttle, at Greenwich, in the county of Hampshire, certain goods and chattels, described in the indictment, the property of Robart Field and Peleg Canada, feloniously stole ; and that the defendant, at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and on the 9th day of August, 1802, “ did feloniously receive and have all the same goods and chattels aforesaid, after the same had been stolen, taken, and carried away…
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The indictment, which was found at March term, 1804, charged that one Amos Tuttle, at Greenwich, in the county of Hampshire, certain goods and chattels, described in the indictment, the property of Robart Field and Peleg Canada, feloniously stole ; and that the defendant, at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and on the 9th day of August, 1802, “ did feloniously receive and have all the same goods and chattels aforesaid, after the same had been stolen, taken, and carried away aforesaid, he, the said Andrews, then and there well knowing the same to have been so stolen, taken, and carried away;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards thus delivered by
* Parker, J.
The indictment in this case charges that [ * 131 ] one Amos Tuttle, on the fourth day of June, Anno Domini 1802, did feloniously take, steal, and carry away certain *112articles therein specified, and that the defendant, on the ninth day of August, following, did feloniously have and receive the same articles, knowing them to be stolen.
The jury have returned a special verdict, viz., that the defendant is "guilty of feloniously having and receiving the articles stolen, knowing them to have been stolen, but they do not find that…
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