Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sexton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 5, 1997PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFried, J.
The defendant, Everett Sexton, was convicted on a joint venture theory of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and wilful and malicious destruction of property. On appeal, the Appeals Court affirmed his conviction of wilful and malicious destruction of property, but reversed his conviction of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon on the ground that concrete pavement, the instrumentality at issue, is not a dangerous weapon. Commonwealth v. Sexton, 41 Mass. App. Ct. 676, 678-680 (1996). We granted the Commonwealth’s application for further appellate review and affirm…
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