KAFKER, J.
After being indicted on fifteen separate larceny counts, the defendant, Richard Clark, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to all counts and was adjudicated a common and notorious thief. G. L. c. 266, § 40. As Justice Lemuel Shaw explained, "[t]he effect of the [common and notorious thief] statute is to consolidate the ... convictions, and to render one judgment upon them, as upon one substantive offense." Commonwealth v. Tuck, 20 Pick. 356, 357...
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