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COMMONWEALTH v. MASSOD

350 Mass. 745 (1966)

217 N.E.2d 191

COMMONWEALTH vs. EDWARD P. MASSOD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 3, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony M. Fredella for the defendant.

John Clark Wheatley, Special Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.

SPALDING, J.

These are two criminal complaints brought in a District Court. The first charged the defendant with being a person found or present in a room "with apparatus ... for registering bets" upon horse races, and that "[he] did register such bets" (G.L.c. 271, § 17); the second charged the defendant with use of a "telephone for the purpose of accepting wagers or bets" on horse races. Upon appeal the defendant was found guilty on both complaints. The defendant...

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