152 Mass. 529
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 28, 1890
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1890-11-28
Indictment for adultery. Trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows.
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Decided 1890-11-28
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1975
3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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¶1So far as appears, the confessions were voluntary, and the defendant was not induced to make them by any “fear of personal injury, or hope of personal benefit, of a temporal nature ” threatened or promised by any person who, as he supposed, had “ some power or authority to' assure to him the promised good, or to cause or influence the threatened injury.” See Commonwealth v. Morey, 1 Gray, 461.
¶2Exceptions overruled.