Commonwealth v. Saler’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on William Garland v. State of Washington · Commonwealth v. Mentzer · Hutchison & Batchelder v. Commonwealth · Kilrow v. Commonwealth · Fulmer v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“The court did not err in refusing to arrest the judgment upon the ground that the defendant had not entered a plea of not guilty. The defendant was present at the trial and represented by counsel; assisted in the selection of the jury and the trial proceeded regularly in all respects as if the formal plea had been entered, the omission is not ground for a motion in arrest of judgment. The judgment should not be reversed for a formal defect of this sort after a trial on the merits ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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