Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Best
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 5, 1980PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
Upon indictments dated in June, 1978, the defendants Mamie Ann Best and her son John R. McCown stood trial for fourteen days in April-May, 1979, and were found guilty by a Middlesex County jury of the murder in the first degree on October 25, 1974, of Fayne Adams, husband of Best and stepfather of McCown. The defendants appeal direct to this court arguing various errors claimed below, and also, in reliance on G. L. c. 278, § 33E, certain errors freshly claimed here. We recount the facts as the jury might have apprehended them, at the same time indicating more or less the trail of the…
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