Commonwealth v. Ennis

In November, 1983, the defendant,1 after a jury trial, was convicted of three charges of assault while armed *171with a dangerous weapon, with intent to murder, see G. L. c. 265, § 18 (¿>) (1984 ed.), one charge of armed robbery, and a variety of other charges.2 He was sentenced to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction for a term of eighteen to twenty years for each conviction for assault while armed with a dangerous weapon, with intent to murder, and for a term of twenty to thirty years for the armed robbery,3 all sentences to be served concurrently. The defendant appealed…