Commonwealth v. Williams

The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree, and was found guilty of that crime by a jury in May, 1973. We recite briefly the evidence on which the jury could have based its verdict.

The victim, Andrew Fillios, with other members of his family, owned and operated the Pearl Food Market, a neighborhood grocery store located on Pearl Street in Cambridge. On September 14, 1971, at approximately 8 p.m., Fillios and an employee, Richard Kelly, were tending the store and operating its two cash registers when James Cargianes, Fillios’s brother-in-law and one of the store’s part owners,…