Commonwealth v. Ibrahim
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for murder in the second degree, returned by the grand jury in the Superior Court for the County of Worcester on May 11, 1903. The indictment was as follows: “ The Jurors for the Commonwealth aforesaid, on their oath present That Esad Ibrahim, Hussien Ibrahim, Teyfic Bekir, and Jelaladdin Ahmid, each being of Horthbridge in said County of Worcester, on the twenty-eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, at Northbridge in…
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Indictment for murder in the second degree, returned by the grand jury in the Superior Court for the County of Worcester on May 11, 1903. The indictment was as follows: “ The Jurors for the Commonwealth aforesaid, on their oath present That Esad Ibrahim, Hussien Ibrahim, Teyfic Bekir, and Jelaladdin Ahmid, each being of Horthbridge in said County of Worcester, on the twenty-eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, at Northbridge in said County of Worcester, did assault and beat Arif Fainey with intent to murder him by striking and stabbing him in and…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The important question in this case grows out of the St. 1899, c. 409, (R. L. c. 218,) Schedule of Forms, Murder, in which we find these words, following the language which charges the crime: “ (And the jurors further say that the defendant is guilty of murder in the second degree and not in the first degree). This may be added if murder in the first degree is not alleged.” The indictment in the present case charges the defendants with murder in the second degree, following this form, and the case, not being considered capital, was tried before one justice, against the objection of the…
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