Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hicks
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 17, 1978PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
These are appeals pursuant to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from the defendant’s convictions on indictments charging him with murder in the first degree, armed robbery, and unlawfully carrying a firearm. We affirm the convictions.
A short time before midnight on September 28, 1975, security guard Philip Landick drove Shannon Harrell, the assistant manager of a McDonald’s restaurant to a bank on Temple Place in Boston to make a night deposit for McDonald’s. Before Harrell had alighted from the security guard’s marked car, two men approached the car on the driver’s side. Shots were exchanged between…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Raffel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Commonwealth v. FancyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Commonwealth v. BendersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Commonwealth v. SubiloskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MandevilleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. BrittoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. PalmarielloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. BaldwinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Commonwealth v. ForteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
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