If a person convicted under section fifty-three appeals from the sentence, the commission of any like offence by him before judgment on the appeal shall be a breach of the condition of the recognizance, if any was taken upon allowing the appeal.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 56
Subsequent offenses; breach of recognizance on appeal
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