Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bellino
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 8, 1947PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
Philip R. Bellino and Edward F. Gertsen were jointly indicted for the murder of Robert Williams at Lynn on August 7,-1945. Upon trial, both were found guilty in the first degree, and both have been sentenced to death.
The killing occurred in the nighttime on what is known as the Lynn marshes. The victim, the two defendants, and one Mantia, who pleaded guilty to an indictment as an accessory after the fact, went to the locality in a taxicab. While Mantia remained in the taxicab with the driver, Williams and the two defendants proceeded on foot some distance away from the road and out on the…
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