Commonwealth v. Grogan

The defendant has appealed from convictions on indictments charging kidnapping (G. L. c. 265, § 26), assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (G. L. c. 265, § 15A), assault with intent to murder (G. L. c. 265, § 15), and attempted murder by strangulation (G. L. c. 265, § 16), all of which arose out of the brutal beating of a five year old girl. The defendant was awarded a sentence of fifteen to twenty years at M.C.I., Walpole on the last indictment and nine to ten year concurrent sentences on the others.1

We limit any recitation of the evidence to those portions bearing on four…