Commonwealth v. Dascalakis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned on May 14, 1920, charging the defendant, “Paul Dasealakis, otherwise called Paul Pappas,” with the murder of Alice Arseneault on December 26, 1919. In the Superior Court, the case was tried before Keating, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. The defendant did not testify. He was found guilty on June 15, 1922; and alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The defendant was indicted ón May 14, 1920, for the murder of Alice Arseneault on December 26, 1919. At the trial of the defendant in June, 1922, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.
Alice Arseneault was the proprietor of a lodging house at 517 Columbus Avenue, Boston. In September, 1919, the defendant came to her house as a lodger, and from that date to the date of her disappearance “friendly intimacy was observed between them.” Between these dates one Arthur Pelletier called upon Alice Arseneault. These visits of Pelletier occasioned the disapproval of the…
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