¶1directed the clerk to enter the plea of guilty alone, observing that it had heretofore been solemnly determined that a conviction of a breach of the peace before a magistrate, on the confession or information of the offender himself, was no bar to an indictment by the grand iury for the same offence.
4 Mass. 477
Commonwealth v. Alderman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 15, 1808
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1808-09-15
The defendant being arraigned on an indictment for an assault and battery, and being inquired of by the clerk, whether he was guilty or not guilty, said that he was guilty, but added that he had himself informed a justice of the peace for the county of his offence, by whom he had been sentenced to pay a fine, &.c.
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Decided 1808-09-15
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