Commonwealth v. Yancee

The defendant appeals from his conviction by a jury of three offenses arising from his alleged operation of a truck which was in collision with two other motor vehicles on a Chelsea street.1 There was evidence that the defendant was the operator of the truck at the time of the collision, despite his testimony to the contrary. There was also evidence that prior to his arrest near the scene of the collision the defendant directed epithets bearing racial overtones to the owner of one of the other vehicles and his wife. The defendant is a black Japanese-American, and the three witnesses for the…