141 Mass. 78
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 30, 1886
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1886-01-30
Complaint to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on March 6,1885, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making the complaint, at Boston, “ was and is an idle and disorderly person, and on said days and times, at said Boston, has neglected all lawful business and habitually misspent her time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming-houses, and tippling-shops, against the peace,” In the Municipal Court, and in…
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1911
2 state decisions
Relies on Commonwealth v. Doherty
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Decided 1886-01-30
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¶1The only question in this case is whether the complaint should have been quashed as insufficient. It follows the words of the statute, is in the form which is uniformly used, and which has been recognized as sufficient in numerous adjudged cases. The motion to quash was rightly overruled. Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 29. Commonwealth v. Sullivan, 5 Allen, 511. Commonwealth v. Doherty, 137 Mass. 245. Commonwealth v. Hart, 137 Mass. 247, n.
¶2Exceptions overruled.