Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1842 (Evans v. Commonwealth)

Shaw, C. J.

The first of these xvrits of error is brought to reverse a judgment of the municipal court, July term 1818, by which the prisoner, on being convicted of highxvay robbery, was *455sentenced to solitary imprisonment for the term of ten days, and afterward:! to confinement to hard labor in the state prison for life.