Andrews v. Commonwealth

This petition for a writ of error was heard in the county court “on the pleadings, the return, the testimony of the petitioner (Andrews), and a statement of agreed facts.” The single justice affirmed the judgments and filed a statement of his findings and rulings. The case is before us on Andrews’s exceptions to certain findings and rulings of the single justice, to the denial of Andrews’s requests for rulings, and to the order that the judgments be affirmed.

On October 6, 1964, Andrews was charged in three indictments with: (1) assault and battery in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 13A…