Watkins v. Commonwealth

Ernest Watkins appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying, without a hearing, a petition for relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3, from the denial of his motion to dismiss an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. We affirm.

Watkins was fourteen years old at the time of the incident that gave rise to the indictment. He moved to dismiss the indictment and remand the matter to the Juvenile Court on the ground that subjecting him to adult criminal proceedings in the Superior Court pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 74, 1 rather than youthful offender proceedings in the…