COMMONWEALTH v. PAGE


339 Mass. 313 (1959)

159 N.E.2d 82

COMMONWEALTH vs. ARTHUR A. PAGE, JUNIOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Powers, Jr., (Raya S. Dreben with him,) for the defendant.

Joseph A. Melley, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., RONAN, COUNIHAN, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

This bill of exceptions puts in issue the validity of the defendant's indefinite commitment to the treatment center for sex offenders at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Concord under the provisions of G.L.c. 123A, as amended by St. 1957, c. 772 (the statute), and on a petition filed by the district attorney under § 5 applicable to a "prisoner under sentence."

Statute 1957, c. 772, is the third of four enactments designed to...

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