Commonwealth v. Settipane

The defendant was tried before a Superior Court judge sitting without a jury and found guilty under an indictment charging unlawful possession of 473 counterfeit motor vehicle operators’ licenses and two indictments which charged receiving stolen property. He assigns as error (1) the judge’s denial of his “Motion for a Directed Verdict” after the close of the Commonwealth’s case and (2) the judge’s consideration at sentencing of information submitted in affidavits concerning alleged prior criminal conduct by the defendant for which he had been neither convicted nor indicted.

At trial John J.…