Commonwealth v. Sturtivant
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for the murder of Simeon Sturtivant, at Halifax, in the county of Plymouth, on February 15, 1874. Trial before Wells and Ames, JJ., who allowed a bill of exceptions in sub stance as follows: 1. There was evidence tending to show that Simeon Sturtivant and Mary Buckley, his housekeeper, were last seen alive about half past six o’clock on Sunday evening, February 15, 1874, and that Thomas Sturtivant was last seen alive about half past four o’clock on the afternoon…
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Indictment for the murder of Simeon Sturtivant, at Halifax, in the county of Plymouth, on February 15, 1874. Trial before Wells and Ames, JJ., who allowed a bill of exceptions in sub stance as follows: 1. There was evidence tending to show that Simeon Sturtivant and Mary Buckley, his housekeeper, were last seen alive about half past six o’clock on Sunday evening, February 15, 1874, and that Thomas Sturtivant was last seen alive about half past four o’clock on the afternoon of the same day; that about half past seven o’clock on the morning of the 16th, Mary Buckley was found lying dead in a…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
1. There was evidence tending to show that three persons, Simeon Sturtivant, Thomas Sturtivant and Mary Buckley, were killed at the same time, by the same weapon. The government had the right to lay before the jury the whole transaction of which the murder of Simeon Sturtivant was a part. For this purpose the testimony of the physician, as to the autopsy of Mary Buckley, was competent.
2. The principal exception is to the competency of the evidence in regard to the blood-stain. The question here is whether a witness, who is familiar with blood and has examined, with a lens, a blood-stain upon…
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