State v. Williams

NICHOLS, Justice.

Upon a jury trial of four days in Superior Court in Oxford County, the Defendant, Philip Williams, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, 17 M.R.S.A. § 951, and of being an accessory before the fact to assault with intent to murder, 17 M.R.S.A. § 2656; 15 M.R.S.A. § 341. The issues which the Defendant raised upon his appeal of those convictions to this Court chiefly concern the admissibility of evidence adduced by the State in that trial.

We deny the appeal.

The pertinent facts can be briefly summarized. On December 30, 1975, Alberta Williams, the Defendant’s former…