WILKINS, J.
The petitioners have excepted to orders of the single justice, after hearing, denying their substantially identical petitions for writs of error with respect to judgments sentencing each to imprisonment.
Each petitioner was convicted of violations of G.L.c. 271, § 17, alleged separately in three indictments. In relevant part, § 17 provides for punishment "by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars or by imprisonment" (emphasis...
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