Commonwealth v. Robinson

The defendant was found guilty upon an indictment charging assault with a dangerous weapon upon and robbery from the person of one Jack E. Weissman, a student at the Harvard Medical School. The defendant appealed from a sentence to the Correctional Institution at Walpole. The trial was conducted subject to the provisions of G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. The evidence presented most directly bearing on the defendant’s appeal is as follows.

About 12:30 a.m. on March 7, 1968, Weissman was walking along Longwood Avenue, Boston, to return to Vanderbilt Hall, his dormitory, from the Children’s Hospital…