Commonwealth v. Corkery
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
COMPLAINT, to the Third District Court of Eastern Middle-sex, for the larceny of milk cans. At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty ; and the defendant alleged exceptions to the admission of certain evidence, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This was a complaint for the larceny of milk cans. The third count was for stealing cans of the property of the Boston Dairy Company. The fourth was for stealing cans of the property of H. P. Hood and Sons. At the trial the other elements of the crime were proved, and the government was allowed, subject to exception, to introduce certificates of the commissioner of corporations purporting to be copies of certified copies of the charter of the Boston Dairy Company as a corporation under the laws of Maine, and the charter of H. P. Hood and Sons, as a corporation under the laws of New Hampshire.…
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