State v. Greenlaw

By separate indictment each respondent was accused of robbery. The same criminal incident was detailed in each accusation and the respondents were jointly tried by jury. Verdicts of guilty were returned. The respondents here prosecute their exceptions to specific instructions rendered to the jury by the presiding justice, to the refusal of the justice to direct verdicts of not guilty, and to communicate certain requested instructions to the jury. Respondents appeal from the denial of their motions for new trials.

The indictments charged that at Portland on April 4, A. D. 1961 each respondent…