Supreme Court of the United States February 25, 1901, 149 (McDonald v. Massachusetts)

Mr. Justice Gray

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error ivas indicted at August terra, 1898, of the Superior Court in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, on the statute of Massachusetts, of 1887, chapter 435, section 1, by which “ whoever has been twice convicted of crime, sentenced and committed, to prison, in this or any other State, or once in this and once at