Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. MacKenzie
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 22, 1975Published
1Opinion of the Court
368 Mass. 613 (1975)
334 N.E.2d 613
COMMONWEALTH
vs.
DANIEL MacKENZIE.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.
January 8, 1975.
September 22, 1975.
Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.
Abbott L. Reichlin for the defendant.
Louis J. Ostric, Special Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
WILKINS, J.
The defendant was found guilty under G.L.c. 273, § 11, which provides that "Whoever, not being the husband of a woman, gets her with child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." Prior to the trial he moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground…
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