Commonwealth v. Ransom

Opinion by

Me. Justice Roberts,

Appellant, Stephen Ransom, was eonvicted of first degree murder after a jury trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. He had been charged, along with two accomplices, with assaulting and robbing one James Bryant and causing Bryant’s death by fatal stabbing.

Appellant, tried alone, raises two contentions on this direct appeal: (1) the trial court improperly admitted into evidence over objection testimony summarizing the confessions of appellant’s accomplices, thus denying appellant his Sixth Amendment right of confrontation; (2) the use, over objection, of…