Opinion · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Commonwealth v. Alderman

Commonwealth v. Alderman, 4 Mass. 477 (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1808)

Type
Opinion
Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts
Date
1808-09-15
Topic
intellectual-property-and-technology

The Court directed the clerk to enter the plea of guilty alone, observing that it had heretofore been solemnly determined that a conviction of a breach of the peace before a magistrate, on the confession or information of the offender himself, was no bar to an indictment by the grand iury for the same offence.

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directed the clerk to enter the plea of guilty alone, observing that it had heretofore been solemnly determined that a conviction of a breach of the peace before a magistrate, on the confession or information of the offender himself, was no bar to an indictment by the grand iury for the same offence.