Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beaulieu
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 5, 1956PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
The defendants Edward R. Beaulieu, Robert E. Weaver, and Donald F. Boisvert, with Arthur A. Gauthier, were indicted for the murder of Harold E. Blodgett and for conspiring to rob and robbing him. These are appeals by Beaulieu, Weaver, and Boisvert from con victions as follows: Beaulieu and Weaver of murder in the second degree; Weaver and Boisvert of conspiracy to rob and robbery. Gauthier did not appeal.
The four defendants met in the Excel Café in Salem in the late evening of November 16, 1954. By the time of the crime each had had much to drink. While in the café some one or more of them…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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