Commonwealth v. Handren

The defendant was indicted by the grand jury for the county of Middlesex on the first Monday of April, 1927, for the larceny of certain personal property, at Cambridge, within that county. On April 8,1927, the defendant was arraigned, had the indictment read to him, pleaded not guilty and put himself upon the country. A jury was empanelled on April 20, 1927, for the trial of the indictment so found.

During the trial the identity of certain dolls was in issue, both to prove the defendant guilty of larceny under the indictment of these specific articles, and as a connecting fink tending to show…