Legal Opinion
State v. Price
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 5, 1979PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
On this appeal the Defendant challenges the admissibility of certain evidence, and the sufficiency of the evidence, upon which he was convicted of manslaughter in Superior Court in Hancock County.
The evidence presented to the jury in that trial can be readily summarized.
On an evening in May, 1978, the Defendant, Dale Brian Price, was sitting on the steps of the Bucksport Public Library drinking beer with Charles Lavin and Vinal DeWitt. The Defendant mentioned that he heard there were fast cars in Bucksport and that he wanted to try his car against them. Tommy Leach drove by…
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