Opinion · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Commonwealth v. Feldman
131 Mass. 588
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Date
- 1881-11-25
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- defendant previously convicted of drunkenness could not relitigate that drunkenness in trial for assault while in a drunken condition
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By the Court.
The conviction and sentence of the defendant for drunkenness was a conclusive adjudication, as between him and the Commonwealth, that he was drunk at the time of his arrest. Commonwealth v. Evans, 101 Mass. 25. Phillips v. Fadden, 125 Mass. 198. Exceptions overruled.