Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tirella
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 25, 1969PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*272Cutter, J.
Tirella was convicted under a complaint charging him with being in the company of Michael J. Barry, knowing that Barry was illegally in the possession of heroin. The case was tried under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. Tirella appealed. He presses only two assignments of error, viz. that the judge erred in denying (1) his motion to dismiss, and (2) his motion for a directed verdict.
The charge arose under the second clause of G. L. c. 94, § 213A (as amended through St. 1960, c. 204, § 2). This section reads in part, “[A] Whoever is present where a narcotic drug is illegally kept or…
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