Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Pettie
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 16, 1973PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
This is an appeal by the defendant under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33H, after trial on an indictment charging him'with murder in the first degree on which a jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter.
On October 4, 1970, at 4:00 A.M., a call was received at Boston City Hospital for an ambulance to go to a certain address in Roxbury. One Gallagher, the ambulance driver, and one Morris, the ambulance medical aide, arrived at the premises about 4:50 a.m. The defendant, who had called for the ambulance, met them in front of the building and led them up to the second floor where he told them, in…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MadeirosMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Commonwealth v. LewisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1963
- Commonwealth v. BumpusMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Commonwealth v. PinnickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
- Commonwealth v. GeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
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3Cited by45 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. HaasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. HofferMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. CohenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
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