Commonwealth v. Teregno
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned on March 18, 1918, against Antonio Teregno and Maria Cammerota for the murder at West-field on January 30, 1918, of Raffaele Cammerota. The indictment was in three counts. In the first count it was charged that the murder was accomplished “by shooting . . . with a revolver loaded with leaden bullets;” in the second count, by stabbing with a knife, and in the third count by shooting and stabbing.
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Indictment, found and returned on March 18, 1918, against Antonio Teregno and Maria Cammerota for the murder at West-field on January 30, 1918, of Raffaele Cammerota. The indictment was in three counts. In the first count it was charged that the murder was accomplished “by shooting . . . with a revolver loaded with leaden bullets;” in the second count, by stabbing with a knife, and in the third count by shooting and stabbing. The indictment was tried in the Superior Court before N. P. Brown, J. Under the circumstances described in the opinion, separate confessions of the defendants were…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The indictment having charged in three counts and the jury having found, that Raffaele Cammerota was feloniously killed by the defendant Teregno, who has been convicted of murder in the first degree, and the defendant Maria Cammerota, wife of the decedent who has been convicted of manslaughter, the case is before this court on exceptions taken by Teregno, which will be considered in the order of presentation.
While the indictment does not charge that an axe was used as the lethal weapon, yet evidence that an axe had been found at the place of the homicide on which “there was a hair and . . .…
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