Commonwealth v. Ward

On October 17, 1977, the defendant was convicted by a jury on an indictment for armed robbery (No. 77-1570) which had been returned against him in the Superior Court in Middlesex County. On October 28, 1977, he was placed on straight probation (G. L. c. 276, § 87) for a period of four years. He was brought into court on April 25, 1979, for some purpose which resulted in a clerk’s minute and a docket entry of “Probation continued to the original expira tian date.” In August of 1981 the defendant was convicted in the District Court in Cambridge on a complaint for breaking and entering in the…