Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. McGarty
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 2, 1948PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The defendant was found guilty in the first degree of the murder of his sister’s eight year old daughter, Theresa Lafleur, in Fall River on the evening of August 4, 1947. The case comes here on his appeal, with an assignment of seven errors and a transcript of the evidence.
The girl was missed, and her father learned that she had gone to walk with the defendant. With a friend, one Lima, the father searched for the defendant and the girl with an automobile. They finally found the defendant, who said that he had left the girl at the junction of two streets, whence she intended to go to his…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WeloskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Commonwealth v. BellinoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Commonwealth v. DiStasioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Commonwealth v. GricusMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Commonwealth v. ClarkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TavaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. GouldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. ChalifouxMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. BonomiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
- Commonwealth v. BysMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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