Legal Opinion
State v. Melvin
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 3, 1978PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
In separate indictments dated January 8, 1976, defendant Donald Melvin was charged in the Superior Court (Knox County) with the offenses of felonious homicide punishable as murder (17 M.R.S.A. § 2651) and assault on a prison officer (34 M.R.S.A. § 710). The indictments were consolidated for trial, and a jury found defendant guilty as charged. Defendant has appealed from the judgments of conviction entered on the jury verdict.
We deny the appeal.
The evidence justified jury findings of these facts. On November 15, 1975 while defendant was serving a sentence at the Maine State…
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