¶1The evidence offered was clearly competent as forming a part of a chain of circumstantial proof tending to show the defendants’ guilt. Although the facts proved were of themselves slight and apparently immaterial, they might have an important bearing in connection with other evidence leading to the conclusion that the defendants were leagued together in the commission of the larceny. Exceptions overruled.
86 Mass. 310
Commonwealth v. Griffin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 15, 1862
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1862-01-15
<p>A verdict of guilty in an indictment against two persons for larceny in a building will not be set aside, because in connection with evidence that they were in the building together on the day of the larceny, evidence was also admitted that within an hour before the larceny was committed they, with another person whose name was not known, were seen walking in the street together towards the building, and were also seen with that person in the street the morning after; or because evidence was admitted that one of the defendants had on two previous occasions called himself by a fictitious name, in connection with evidence that the other defendant, on entering the building on the day of the larceny, inquired for a person bearing that name.</p>
Decided 1862-01-15