Legal Opinion
State v. Little
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 5, 1975PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
On two occasions in the early morning hours of February 24, 1974 a motor vehicle passed the house of Sergeant Streng of the Boothbay Harbor Police Department. With each pass gunfire erupted from the vehicle, once from a shotgun and the second time from a .22 calibre pistol. Several hours later defendants Philip Little and Michael Brewer were arrested as the culprits.
They were separately indicted in the Superior Court (Lincoln County) on April 3, 1974. Each indictment charged two counts of “armed assault” upon Robert Streng in violation of 17 M.R.S.A. § 201-A: — one count…
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