130 Mass. 279
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 29, 1881
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1881-01-29
Indictment on the Gen. Sts. c. 161, § 34, charging the defendants, on October 6, 1880, at Boston, with feloniously and knowingly having in their possession certain implements designed and adapted for breaking open buildings, in order to steal therefrom, and with the intent to use said implements for the purpose of such breaking and stealing.
Relies on Commonwealth v. Nichols · Commonwealth v. Blair
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1881-01-29
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1959
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
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¶1Gilman having offered himself as a witness, his testimony was competent for and against the other defendants, as well as himself. St. 1870, c. 393, § 1, cl. 3. Commonwealth v. Nichols, 114 Mass. 285. Commonwealth v. Robinson, 1 Gray, 555. The court might permit the Commonwealth to introduce any competent evidence at any stage of the trial, even after it had once rested its Case. Commonwealth v. Blair, 126 Mass. 40.
¶2Exceptions overruled.