State v. MacAskill

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This case comes to us on appeal by the state from a judgment of a Superior Court justice dismissing the defendants’ indictments pursuant to Rule 48(b) of the Superi- or Court Rules of Criminal Procedure. On January 9, 1976, a multicount secret indictment was issued against the defendants, Robert Macaskill and Lawrence Lanoue, charging them with the August 14, 1975 robbery of the Bonded Vault Company, a commercial safe-deposit company. 1 Also named in the indictment were Gerald Tillin-ghast, Ralph S. Byrnes, Jacob Tarzian, Charles Flynn, John Ouimette, Walter…