Connor v. Commonwealth

This is a petition for a-writ of error which was filed by Connor in this court after the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Picard v. Connor, 404 U. S. 270 (1971), that it would not pass upon Connor’s contention that the Massachusetts indictment process had denied him the equal protection of the laws. It declined to rule because the issue had never been presented be-before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. This court previously considered the case in Commonwealth v. Doherty, 353 Mass. 197.

At issue is the validity of an indictment for murder which described the accused as merely…