Opinion · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Commonwealth v. Kiley
Commonwealth v. Kiley, 150 Mass. 325 (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1889)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Date
- 1889-12-31
- Topic
- bankruptcy
How later courts describe this case
- “conviction” “ ‘implies a judgment and sentence of the court upon a verdict or confession of guilt.’ Mere verdict of guilty is not enough. . . . ‘Nothing less than a final judgment, conclusively establishing guilt, will satisfy the meaning of the word “conviction” as here used’ ”
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In Commonwealth v. Gorham, 99 Mass. 420, 422, it was said that “ the term ‘ conviction’ is used in at least two different senses in our statutes. In its most common use it signifies the finding of the jury that the prisoner is guilty ; but it is very frequently used as implying a judgment and sentence of the court upon a verdict or confession of guilt.” The statutes referred to in that case fully sustain the statement in the opinion. ■
The St. of 1887, c. 392, provides that “the conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction of a person licensed under the provisions of chapter one hundred of the Public Statutes, for violation of any of the provisions of said chapter, and the several acts in amendment thereof, shall of itself make the license of said person void.” Under this provision, the effect of a conviction of the kind named is to deprive the defendant of a valuable right, without an opportunity for further trial or investigation. We are of opinion that nothing less than a final judgment, conclusively establishing guilt, will satisfy the meaning of the word “ conviction ” as here used. At any time before a final judgment of the court, a motion in arrest of judgment may be made, or the verdict may be set aside upon a motion for a new trial, on the ground of newly discovered evidence, or for other good cause; and, upon further proceedings, it may turn out that the defendant is not guilty.