Commonwealth v. Thompson

An officer’s unresisted arrest of the defendant on two outstanding default warrants and his subsequent discovery of a steak knife in her pocketbook have led to her conviction by a Superior Court judge under G. L. c. 269, § 10(h) and (d). 1. The evidence that the knife had a serrated blade eight inches long, when taken together with the evidence of where the knife was found and the defendant’s statement to the officer that she carried it for her protection, was sufficient to warrant findings that the knife was “dangerous” within the meaning of § 10(h), as appearing in St. 1975, c. 585, § 1,…