Case Name: Commonwealth versus Caleb Trask
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1818-10
Citations: 14 Tyng 277
Docket Number: 
Parties: * Commonwealth versus Caleb Trask.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 254–254

Head Matter:
* Commonwealth versus Caleb Trask.
When one is imprisoned for dangerously wounding another, so that his life is m danger, he is to be kept in prison, without bail, until it shall probably appear that the danger is over.

Opinion:
The grand jury gave information that the said Caleb had been imprisoned for dangerously wounding one Byram Sampson, of which wound the said Byram was still languishing, and it was uncertain whether he would not die of the same wound. Whereupon, the said Caleb, being set to the bar, upon the motion of Morton, Attorney-General, was remanded to the prison, to be there detained until it should probably appear that the danger was over
See 2 Hale's Hist. P. C. 134.