Commonwealth v. McQuoid

On October 9, 1975, the defendant was found guilty by a Superior Court judge of carrying a firearm without a license in violation of G. L. c. 269, § 10 (a), as amended by St. 1975, c. 113, § 2. He was sentenced, as provided by § 10 (a), to the mandatory minimum of one year in a house of correction, execution of which was stayed pending appellate review.

The facts are as follows. On April 24, 1975, after finishing work as a loader-operator for the Leicester highway department around noon, the defendant spent the next five or six hours drinking heavily at three different places in the town of…