Commonwealth v. Morris
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston under St. 1898, c. 577. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Hardy, J., who overruled certain motions to quash made before the impanelling of the jury; and the defendants excepted. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against each defendant ; and they alleged exceptions. They then filed a motion in arrest of judgment, which was overruled, and they excepted.
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Complaint, to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston under St. 1898, c. 577. Trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before Hardy, J., who overruled certain motions to quash made before the impanelling of the jury; and the defendants excepted. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against each defendant ; and they alleged exceptions. They then filed a motion in arrest of judgment, which was overruled, and they excepted. The nature of all the exceptions appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLatheop, J.
While there are many grounds of objection taken in the court below to the validity of the complaint and the statute upon which it is founded, we shall confine ourselves to those insisted upon at the argument before us.
1. The statute in question is the St. of 1898, c. 577, entitled “ An Act relative to small loans and the redemption of the security therefor.” The defendants contend that the statute is vague, defective, uncertain, and silent upon essential points, and hence void. In support of this proposition it is urged that the complaint is under §§ 1 and 10 of the act above referred to, and…
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