Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Makarewicz
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 15, 1956PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCounihan, J.
On December 10, 1954, the grand jury for the county of Norfolk returned an indictment against the defendant, the first count of which charged that the defendant on or about November 4, 1954, at Norwood “did assault and beat Geraldine Armese, with intent to murder her, and by such assault and beating did kill and murder the said Geraldine Annese”; the second count is substantially the same as the first except that after the words “with intent to murder her” are added the words “by manually strangling her.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty and was put on trial before a jury. The trial was…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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- Watts v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Stein v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Lyons v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Commonwealth v. TuckerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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3Cited by76 opinions
- State v. AtkinsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
- Faught Ex Rel. Faught v. WashamSupreme Court of Missouri · 1959
- Commonwealth v. UnderwoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
- Myers v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. SandlerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
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