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COMMONWEALTH v. DEMOGENES

349 Mass. 585 (1965)

211 N.E.2d 226

COMMONWEALTH vs. MICHAEL DEMOGENES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

October 28, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Hamilton (Harold Katz & Nicholas Macaronis with him) for the defendant.

Barry Haight, Assistant District Attorney (Ruth I. Abrams, Assistant District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

Present: SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.

SPALDING, J.

The defendant was tried and convicted on a complaint charging a violation of G.L.c. 271, § 17, in that he "was found in a place in ... Lowell with apparatus, books or any device for the purpose of registering bets upon the results of a trial or contest of skill or endurance of beasts, to wit: a horse race and did register bets upon such trials or contest of speed." At the close of the evidence the defendant presented a motion for a directed verdict...

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