Commonwealth v. Brennor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned in the Superior Court for the county of Essex on January 13, 1906, in two counts, charging the defendant with buying, receiving and aiding in the concealment of certain property of the W. C. Lewis Shoe Company, knowing it to have been stolen, the property which the defendant was charged in the first count with receiving consisting of thirty-six cases of soles of the value of $5.40 stolen on June 23, 1905, and the property which the defendant…
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Indictment, found and returned in the Superior Court for the county of Essex on January 13, 1906, in two counts, charging the defendant with buying, receiving and aiding in the concealment of certain property of the W. C. Lewis Shoe Company, knowing it to have been stolen, the property which the defendant was charged in the first count with receiving consisting of thirty-six cases of soles of the value of $5.40 stolen on June 23, 1905, and the property which the defendant was charged in the second count with receiving consisting of sixty other cases of soles of the value of $6, stolen on June…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The defendant requested the judge to state to the jury that it was not safe to convict upon the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices, and to advise the jury to acquit unless their testimony was corroborated on some material point. This the judge declined to do, but instructed the jury that they should consider the testimony of the accomplices with the utmost care and scrutiny unless they found it to be corroborated by other testimony on some point material to the case, and further stated that they might well hesitate to convict unless there was such corroboration.
The defendant then…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HolmesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Commonwealth v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Commonwealth v. RussellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Commonwealth v. CorkeryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Commonwealth v. CottonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. LeventhalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- State v. PowerSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1952