State v. Danahey

The defendant was tried before a justice of the Superior Court and a jury on an indictment charging him with the murder of his wife. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. The trial justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial and sentenced him to a term of 26 years in the Adult Correctional Institutions. The case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to certain evidentiary rulings.

The defendant and his wife, Deborah Danahey, had been married for about ten years. They resided together in a second-floor apartment at 563 Prospect Street in the City of…