Commonwealth v. Hamilton

The defendants, Hamilton and Hopkins, and two others were charged in nine indictments with armed robbery, each indictment naming a different victim. They were also charged in a single indictment with assault being armed with a dangerous weapon and in another indictment with carrying a shotgun under their control in an automobile. The indictments arose out of a robbery by three men, one carrying a shotgun, in a café in Jamaica Plain on December 6, 1972, at about 8 p.m. The victims named in the indictments were in the café at the time.

After the robbery, the three men together with a woman fled…