Legal Opinion
State v. Bessey
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided November 20, 1974PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEATHERBEE, Justice.
Indictments were brought against the Defendant in 1970 charging him with two felonious homicides punishable as murder. He pleaded not guilty and was tried on the indictment charging him with the death of Mildred Eddy. The jury found him guilty of assault with intent to kill.
The Court then granted the State’s motion to reduce the charge in the other indictment (which charged the Defendant with the death of Russell M. Choate) to assault with intent to kill and Defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to that indictment. M.R.Crim.P., Rule 11.
The Defendant was sentenced to…
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