Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Chase
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 3, 1966PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
Under an indictment charging him with the murder in the second degree of Philip Kantrowitz, the defendant was found guilty. The case comes here by appeal under U. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33Q-, with numerous assignments of error. A report relating to certain aspects of this and a prior indictment was before us in Commonwealth v. Chase, 348 Mass. 100.
The indictment arose out of the following events. On Thursday, January 12, 1956, Chase, who was then fifteen years old, together with Reginald F. Metcalf, aged thirteen, entered Kantrowitz’s store in Newburyport with a rifle for the purpose of committing…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Fahy v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Haley v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Watts v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Richard E. Loux and Neil Conrad Wallen v. United States of America, Vertis James Barrett, Arthur St. Peter Andharold Oscar Thomas v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1968
- Commonwealth v. DickersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- State v. TolleySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1976
- Commonwealth v. GrazianoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. FrenchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
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