Legal Opinion
State v. Bellanceau
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided January 11, 1977PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHIBALD, Justice.
After a jury trial in the Superior Court the defendant was found guilty of armed robbery. 17 M.R.S.A. § 3401-A. By appropriate motions seasonably filed the defendant has preserved for appellate review his contention that the evidence was insufficient to support the guilty verdict.
We deny the appeal.
Between the hours of 9:50 p. m. and 10:00 p. m., on March 31, 1975, a variety store in Portland was the scene of an armed robbery. The defendant was not physically within the store at that precise moment. At trial the admitted perpetrator of the robbery, after denying that…
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3Cited by12 opinions
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