Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Costley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 21, 1875PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
James H.
Costley was indicted for murder, in one count, as follows: “ The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their oath present, that James H. Costley, late of Hanover in the county of Plymouth, on the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, at Braintree in the county of Norfolk aforesaid, with force and arms in and upon one Julia Hawks, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault; and that the said James H. Costley a certain pistol, then and there charged with gunpowder and one leaden bullet, then…
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