State v. McKeough

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

In the late evening of October 4, 1971, a young lady who was walking on Park Street toward York Street in Portland was attacked by a male assailant. In the ensuing struggle the assailant produced a knife and the lady suffered a chest wound and a cut finger. While she was struggling with this assailant another male individual, an accomplice, made off with her purse. Sub sequently, she identified the Defendant as the assailant and he was arrested a few days later upon the lady’s complaint.

After a probable cause hearing in the Ninth District Court of Maine Defendant was bound…