Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bumpus
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 4, 1972PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
The defendant appeals under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from a conviction under an indictment charging him with the murder of Edward Grenier and from convictions under four other indictments charging him with the armed robbery of four other persons. The jury recommended, as to the murder conviction, that the death penalty not be imposed.
On July 9, 1970, a robber entered the Mount Vernon Co-operative Bank on Boylston Street, in the city of Boston, vaulted over the teller’s counter with a pistol in his hand and robbed four of the tellers. He took about $5,900 from them. Edward Grenier, a bank…
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