Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Millyan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 10, 1987PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNolan, J.
Three appeals arise out of the same crime and raise common issues of law. 2 On September 21, 1981, the defendant, Andrew J. Millyan, carrying a loaded shotgun, entered the Sandbar Lounge in Revere Beach. He was accompanied by a codefendant, Robert L. Cobb; the other codefendant, Arthur A. Corbett, waited in a car parked in an alley next to the lounge. Within a few minutes, Millyan fired the shotgun. The pellets from the blast struck Dana Hill, a customer playing pool in the rear of the bar, about the face and skull. Hill died three days later. The defendants were indicted and tried on the…
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