State v. Tarvis

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This is an appeal from judgments of conviction in the Superior Court for first-degree murder and other violent crimes, enumerated below. On appeal the defendants set forth a multiplicity of errors that they attribute to the trial justice and assert as the basis for reversal of their convictions. The facts as disclosed by the record are as follows.

The unfortunate events that underlie the convictions that are being challenged in this case occurred on November 18, 1980. The defendants, Thomas M. Porraro (Porraro) and John J. Tarvis (Tarvis), were drinking and playing…