Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. White
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 14, 1967PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
The defendant, Richard A. White, was in • dieted for the murder of Clifford A. Crawford. The indictment charged murder in the first degree. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and recommended that the death sentence be not imposed. G. L. c. 265, § 2. The case, having been tried subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, comes here on White’s appeal.
We summarize the pertinent evidence as follows: On Sunday, December 5, 1965, about 6:30 a.m. Clifford Crawford was found dead outside Vi-Cliff’s Restaurant in Danvers. The cause of death was a bullet wound in the chest. Crawford operated the restaurant…
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3Cited by102 opinions
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