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· 5/22/1902

Hayward v. Langmaid

Citations

  • 181 Mass. 426
  • 63 N.E. 912
  • 1902 Mass. LEXIS 882

How courts have described this case

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  • “[Bjecause ... the special circumstances findings must ... be vacated, the punishment of death likewise cannot stand under the statute.”
  • act of force or intimidation by which taking is accomplished in robbery must be motivated by intent to steal
  • “[T]he district attorney correctly told the jurors that in order to find the charged special circumstances to be true they must first find defendant guilty of the underlying crimes of robbery and kidnaping”
  • “It is settled that in a habeas corpus proceeding ‘the court considers only those grounds ... alleged in the petition for issuance of the writ’ or in any supplemental petition filed with permission of the court.” (citations omitted)
  • cone. & dis. opn. of Richardson, J.

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Judges: Morton

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