Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Zelenski
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 25, 1934PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
The defendant was indicted for murder in 1924. In March of the following year he was committed to the Bridgewater State Hospital for observation and treatment as to his mental condition; he was returned for trial in March of the current year. See G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 123, §§ 100, 100A, 105; Commonwealth v. Spencer, 212 Mass. 438; Commonwealth v. Vallarelli, 273 Mass. 240.
There was evidence tending to show that between eight and nine o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1924, after a heavy fall of snow, a girl about fourteen years old, wearing her elder brother’s rubber boots, left her home in a…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- District of Columbia v. ArmesSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Commonwealth v. ChanceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Commonwealth v. SoarisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Commonwealth v. SpencerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Commonwealth v. McDonaldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DiStasioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Commonwealth v. FordeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. WhiteheadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. ClarkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Commonwealth v. SheppardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
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