Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Devlin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 5, 1974PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
The defendant was convicted on an indictment 1 charging him with being an accessory after the fact to an assault with intent to murder. G. L. c. 274, § 4. 2 He was sentenced to serve one year and one day at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole from and after the expiration of the sentence he was then serving. By his bill of exceptions he assigns as error the denial of his motions for a directed verdict, 3 the admission of certain evidence and a portion of the judge’s supplementary charge to the jury.
As we conclude that the motions for a directed verdict were improperly denied and…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Government of the Virgin Islands v. Vidal Galdon Aquino, Government of the Virgin Islands v. Ishmael Guillerma ReyesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1967
- Commonwealth v. CroftMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- Commonwealth v. EaganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
- Commonwealth v. SheaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Commonwealth v. HughesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BurkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. DonovanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Commonwealth v. BoransMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- State v. LynchSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1979
- Aldoupolis v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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