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111 Mass. 422

Commonwealth v. Crawford

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 15, 1873

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1873-01-15

Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, for unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquors with intent to sell. The defendant was convicted and appealed. The copies of the complaint and of the record of the proceedings in the Municipal Court, transmitted to the Superior Court, were attested by an assistant clerk of the Municipal Court.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1937

2 state decisions

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Decided 1873-01-15

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By the Court.

¶11. There is nothing in the bill of exceptions to show that the proper papers were not transmitted to the Supe, rior Court, as required by the St. of 1862, c. 217, § 3.

¶22. The papers transmitted were properly attested. It is within the scope of the powers conferred by the statutes upon the assist* *423ant clerks of the Municipal Court, for them to attest the papers transmitted to the Superior Court.

¶33. There was no error in allowing an attested copy of the complaint to go to the jury. The defendant certainly was not injured by allowing such copy to go to the jury instead of a full copy of the papers containing a record of his conviction and sentence in the court below. Exceptions overruled.

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