State v. Cugliata

WERNICK, Justice.

In a consolidated trial in the Superior Court (Lincoln County) the jury, on March 15, 1975, found defendant Frank Cugliata and defendant John Moraites guilty, as charged by indictment, of felonious homicide punishable as murder (17 M.R.S.A. § 2651). Each defendant has appealed from the judgment of conviction entered against him.

We deny the appeals.

I

The nature of the points raised on appeal requires an extensive statement of the factual findings warranted by the evidence.

On Thursday morning August 15,1974, at approximately 6:00 a. m., the dead body of Vincent Serra of Medford,…