Legal Opinion
State v. Philbrick
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 5, 1979PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POMEROY, Justice.
Indicted on September 8, 1977 on a single count of criminal homicide in the second degree (17-A M.R.S.A. § 202(1)(A) (Supp. 1976), 1 defendant, Leland Philbrick, was tried before and adjudged guilty by a jury in the Superior Court, York County. From the judgment entered on the verdict, defendant brings this appeal.
We sustain the appeal.
At trial, defendant related the following sequence of events leading up to the shooting of Charles Porterfield. On the morning of July 11, 1977 defendant left his home in Old Town, planning to visit his family in Saco before hitchhiking through…
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- Town of Arundel v. SwainSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1977
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Blouin v. City of RocklandSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1982
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