State v. Ellis

OPINION

WEISBERGER., Justice.

This case comes before us on the defendant’s appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree entered in the Superior Court. We affirm. The facts insofar as pertinent to his appeal are as follows.

In the early morning of February 3, 1988, a security officer employed by Brown University discovered a man lying on the ground on India Street in Providence near the Brown University boathouse. It was apparent that the man was dead, a portion of his head having been blown apart by a blast from a shotgun. The man was later identified as Jeffrey Patrick…