Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Horton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 19, 1978PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQuirico, J.
The defendants William R. Horton, Roosevelt Pickett, and Alvin L. Wideman were convicted after a jury trial of armed robbery and murder in the first degree. Motions for new trials were denied as to all defendants. The cases are before us pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, on argued assignments of error as to certain pretrial and trial rulings and the denial of the defendant Horton’s motion for a new trial based on a claim of newly discovered evidence. We conclude that there was no error, and that there is no basis to modify the jury’s verdicts or the judge’s decision on the motion for a…
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