Commonwealth v. Sumerlin

The defendant was indicted by a grand jury for unlawfully carrying a pistol on his person. G. L. c. 140, §§ 129C, 131, 131F, 131G. After a hearing, a judge of the Superior Court allowed the defendant’s motion to suppress as evidence the pistol seized by police. A single justice of this court allowed the Commonwealth’s application for leave to take an interlocu tory appeal and transferred the case to the Appeals Court, which summarily affirmed the judge’s order. Commonwealth v. Sumerlin, 17 Mass. App. Ct. 1108 (1983). We granted the Commonwealth’s application for further appellate review. We…