Commonwealth v. Chapman

The defendant, who was tried to a jury under an indictment charging armed robbery, was found guilty. The trial was conducted subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, and the case comes here by appeal.

1. The seventh assignment of error, which will be discussed first, is based on the defendant’s exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict.

There was evidence of the following: On November 13, 1961, the defendant, aged seventeen, and his two companions, Kehoe and Scurto, spent the evening playing cards and drinking at the home of Kehoe’s sister in Malden. During the evening Scurto…