# Commonwealth v. Plummer

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · November 26, 1888 · 147 Mass. 601

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6422916

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Charles N. Plummer
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** November 26, 1888
- **Citations:** 147 Mass. 601; 18 N.E. 567; 1888 Mass. LEXIS 172
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Morton
- **Judges:** Morton
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Morton, C. J.
We need not discuss the question whether the Commonwealth would be barred from prosecuting a person for an offence by the fact that the attorney general, district attorney, or other prosecuting officer had promised such person immunity, upon calling him as a witness in the prosecution of another person for the same offence, or one connected with it. Such question is not raised in the case at bar, because there is nothing to show that the city marshal made any promise to the defendant, express or implied, that he should be protected from prosecution. Commonwealth v. Brown, 103 Mass. 422 . Commonwealth v. Denehy, 103 Mass. 424 , note.
Exceptions overruled.

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