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2 Cited authorities

  1. Commonwealth v. Diamond

    248 Mass. 511 (Mass. 1924)   Cited 13 times

    January 10, 1924. April 11, 1924. Present: RUGG, C.J., DeCOURCY, CROSBY, PIERCE, WAIT, JJ. Idle and Disorderly Person. Pleading, Criminal, Motion to quash, Complaint. A motion to quash a complaint, on the ground only that it is defective in form, comes too late if it is not filed until the case is pending in the Superior Court on appeal from a judgment entered in a municipal court. G.L.c. 272, § 53, aims at suppressing the idle and disorderly, and seeks to punish such not for doing specific things

  2. Commonwealth v. O'Brien

    61 N.E. 213 (Mass. 1901)   Cited 13 times

    September 17, 1901. October 15, 1901. Present: HOLMES, C.J., KNOWLTON, LATHROP, BARKER, JJ. Lewd, Wanton and Lascivious Person. Evidence, Admissions. Where on a complaint, under Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 29, charging the defendant with being a "lewd, wanton and lascivious person in speech and behavior" the proof is confined to the conduct of the defendant on a single occasion, the conduct proved is not the offence but only a ground of inference that the defendant is a person of the kind described, and