Case ID: mass_78/html/0028-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Bigelow, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth vs. Timothy Sheehan.
    The record of a conviction transmitted by a justice of the peace to the court of common pleas must be certified to be a copy.
    Complaint for an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor. The record of conviction transmitted to the court of common pleas was signed “ Attest, Sami. B. Noyes, justice of the peace,” without showing that it was a copy; and the defendant, upon that ground, after conviction in that court, moved in arrest of judgment, and, that motion being overruled by Sanger, J*, alleged exceptions.
    
      G. A. W. Chamberlain, for the defendant.
    
      S. H. Phillips, (Attorney General,) for the Commonwealth
    cited Commonwealth v. Hogan, 11 Gray, 313.
   Bigelow, J.

This case comes within the decision in Commonwealth v. Doty, 2 Met. 18. The record of the conviction of the defendant before the magistrate is not certified to be a true copy. For aught that appears on the face of the paper, it may be the original record. Exceptions sustained