Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Connolly
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 28, 1970PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
Under indictments charging them with the murder of one John Chwalek, the defendants, Daniel R. Connolly and Richard J. Cote, were found guilty of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation that the death sentence be not imposed. The defendants appealed. G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G.
The evidence relating to the homicide came from one Sylvia E. Haggar, an eyewitness, whose testimony in substance was as follows. On the evening of November 30, 1967, while riding with Chwalek in a motor vehicle on Water Street, Lawrence, she observed a green car containing the two defendants and a third person…
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