Commonwealth v. McDuffee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “the rationale behind the requirement of a specific exception is to enable the judge to make any necessary correction”
• noting that \rationale behind the requirement of a specific exception is to enable the judge to make any necessary correction\
• defendant must bring alleged error in charge to judge’s attention in specific terms in order to give judge opportunity to rectify any error
• Commissioner of Insurance with authority over brokers’ renewal applications had authority to require that statements be made under oath
• in perjury context, knowledge of testimony’s falsity “may be inferred by the trier of fact from circumstantial evidence, which reasonably tends to show that knowledge existed”
• \[S]erious constitutional questions are raised [by Horning] in light of modern case law.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).