Commonwealth v. Costley

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 1875-06-21

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James H. Costley was indicted for murder, in one count, as follows: “ The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their oath present, that James H. Costley, late of Hanover in the county of Plymouth, on the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, at Braintree in the county of Norfolk aforesaid, with force and arms in and upon one Julia Hawks, feloniously, wilfully, and of h…

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