Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Chretien
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 9, 1981PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The defendant was tried before a jury in the Superior Court and convicted of rape, and breaking and entering a dwelling house in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony and assaulting a person lawfully therein. He was sentenced to from three to five years incarceration at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole and to three years probation on and after release. He appealed to the Appeals Court, and we transferred the appeal here on our own motion.
The defendant contends that the trial judge erroneously ruled that the fact that the victim was the defendant’s wife was no…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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