Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Rogers

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided April 2, 1902PublishedCited by 51 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Holmes, O. J.

This is an indictment in ten counts charging the defendants with conspiring to procure certain persons to vote at a republican caucus, who were not entitled to vote there, and with aiding and abetting certain persons not entitled to vote in illegally voting at the same caucus. Probably in consequence of the number of counsel engaged scarcely a step was taken in the case without objection, and we shall not feel called upon to discuss each of the innumerable exceptions at length or to go much beyond the arguments addressed to us.

A motion to quash was made on behalf of the…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. United States v. CruikshankSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  2. Bowers v. SmithSupreme Court of Missouri · 1892
  3. Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
  4. Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
  5. Commonwealth v. MeserveMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891

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3Cited by51 opinions

  1. Attorney General v. PelletierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  2. Commonwealth v. DyerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  3. Attorney General v. TuftsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
  4. Van Riper v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
  5. Commonwealth v. FrenchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970

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