State v. Burke

This indictment for kidnapping was tried to a superior court justice sitting with a jury who returned a verdict of guilty. The case is before us on the defendant’s bill of exceptions to certain rulings made during the course of the trial.

The ultimate facts not in dispute establish that at or .about 9:44 on the evening of October 9, 1964, officer Francis R. Labrie of the Smithfield police department received a radio call directing him to investigate an apparent breaking and entering of a First National store located on Putnam avenue in the village of Greenville. Arriving at the store officer…