Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Belton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 31, 1967PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
The defendant was indicted for the murder of Clifford Sheets, the indictment charging murder in the second degree. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The case, having been tried subject to Gr. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G-, comes here on the defendant’s appeal.
The evidence was as follows: On August 15,1965, shortly before midnight, Sheets, the night watchman, was found lying in the corridor of the fourteenth floor of the YWCA building in Boston. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The death was determined to have been caused by a stab wound in the abdomen.
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2Cases cited19 opinions
- Michelson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Raymond Palmer v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
- Lolos v. BerlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
- Commonwealth v. BurkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Commonwealth v. BealMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HaasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. KelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. CampbellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. VitelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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