Commonwealth v. Blaney

The only real issue in contention at the defendant’s trial on an indictment charging him with armed robbery, G. L. c. 265, § 17, was whether he had been misidentified by the victim. Because a double-pose, frontal and profile views, photograph of the defendant was intro duced in evidence without being severed when it was reasonably possible to separate the pictures, we reverse the judgment.

On December 9,1979, one Gary Manzo and one Caroline Travis were at work at Andrews Pharmacy in Wellesley. About 6:00 p.m. Manzo, the pharmacist-manager, approached a man standing at the pharmacy counter in…