Case Name: Commonwealth vs. Elmer T. Knights (and three companion cases)
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1949-12-07
Citations: 325 Mass. 758
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth vs. Elmer T. Knights (and three companion cases).
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 325
Pages: 758–758

Head Matter:
Commonwealth vs. Elmer T. Knights (and three companion cases).
December 7, 1949.
J. M. Boyle, for- the defendant.
B. W. Flynn, Assistant District Attorney, {E. R. Dewing, District Attorney, with him,) for the Commonwealth.

Opinion:
Exceptions overruled. The defendant's exceptions are to the denial of his motions to continue for trial indictments charging him, in three with sodomy and in one with gross lewdness. The granting of the continuance rested entirely in the sound discretion of the trial judge. Commonwealth v. Brothers, 158 Mass. 200, 205. Commonwealth v. Friedman, 256 Mass. 214, 216. Commonwealth v. Millen, 289 Mass. 441, 463. There is nothing to indicate an abuse of such discretion. Ample opportunity was given the defendant to produce the witnesses he wished to call in his defence. They appeared and testified.