State v. Quattrocchi

The defendant, indicted and tried for manslaughter, was found guilty by a jury in the superior court. After his motion for a new trial was denied, he brought his bill of exceptions to this court.

Shortly after midnight on November 24, 1963, defendant met the decedent, Docanto, in a parking lot adjacent to Samson’s diner in Pawtucket. An argument developed and a fight followed. The police were called, but by the time they arrived defendant had left the scene. They found Do-canto lying face down in a shallow pool of water. He was dead. The cause of death as testified to by the doctor who…