Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bookman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 30, 1982PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
The defendant was convicted by a jury of manslaughter. He was sentenced to a term of seven to ten years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. He appealed. The execution of sentence was stayed by the trial judge, pending the appeal. The appeal is here on our motion. We reverse the judgment of conviction.
The victim, Jesse Aranjo, was found dead in a dugout at Dias Field, New Bedford, in the early afternoon of May 25, 1979. The cause of death was damage to the brain resulting from blunt force injury to the head. An examination of the victim’s body revealed additional multiple…
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