Case ID: mass_13/html/0400-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth versus Simeon Williams.
    Defendants in criminal cases, not capital, must summon their witnesses at their own expense.
    The defendant being arraigned upon an indictment for burglary in the second degree, and having pleaded not guilty, Hoar moved the Court on his behalf, to direct that the names of certain witnesses, necessary to his defence, should be inserted in the Commonwealth’s process for the witnesses for the prosecution, the defendant being very poor.
    
      Morton (Attorney-General)
    opposed the motion, and observed that the law had made sufficient provision for criminals in such case. 
    
    
      
      
        stat. 1791, c. 53, § 6,.
    
   The Court said, this was granted in capital trials only, in favor of life ; and the motion was overruled.