# Commonwealth v. Brown

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · January 29, 1881 · 130 Mass. 279

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6420197

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Thomas H. Brown & others
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** January 29, 1881
- **Citations:** 130 Mass. 279; 1881 Mass. LEXIS 73
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 18 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

By the Court.
Gilman having offered himself as a witness, his testimony was competent for and against the other defendants, as well as himself. St. 1870, c. 393, § 1, cl. 3. Commonwealth v. Nichols, 114 Mass. 285 . Commonwealth v. Robinson, 1 Gray, 555 . The court might permit the Commonwealth to introduce any competent evidence at any stage of the trial, even after it had once rested its Case. Commonwealth v. Blair, 126 Mass. 40 .
Exceptions overruled.

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