Commonwealth v. Slaney

The defendant Slaney was found guilty on two indictments, one charging him, with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon on Mary Bowen and the other charging him with assault by means of a dangerous weapon on Joseph A. DeVincentis. Both offences, it was alleged, were committed at Cambridge on August 3, 1961. Trial was had in the Superior Court without jury. G. L. c. 263, § 6, as amended. The cases, made subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, come to us upon appeals accompanied by seven assignments of error which for our .purposes may be grouped into four. The defendant contends that…