Commonwealth v. Heffernan

This is an appeal under GL L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33Gr, as amended, from the conviction of the defendant by a judge sitting without jury in the Superior Court. The defendant had been indicted under GL L. c. 268A, § 2 (d), in that he, being a State trooper, “did corruptly ask for and receive something of value for himself in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act.”

It is undisputed that on the morning of November 1,1964, while driving easterly on Route 2 in Concord, Travis K. Stone and Thomas M. Price, both army privates at Port Devens, were stopped by the defendant and…