Commonwealth v. Wilson

A complaint charged that the defendant “did, by means of a dangerous weapon, MOTOR VEHICLE, assault and beat COMM OF MASS, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 15A.” The defendant pleaded guilty to this charge (count E) and four other charges set forth in the same complaint, all of which were connected to a drug sale and subsequent police chase that ended in the defendant’s car hitting a police cruiser. This, apparently, was the so-called “battery.”1 The case is now before us *417on the defendant’s appeal from the denial of his motion to vacate his conviction of assault with a dangerous weapon and to…