Edgerly v. Commonwealth

The attorney applying for compensation herein served as retained counsel 1 in the trial in Superior Court, Middlesex County, of one George O. Edgerly for larceny of property over $100 in value. 2 On April 1, 1976, a jury found Edgerly guilty of the offense charged, and the trial judge sentenced him to three to five years’ imprisonment at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. When the judge denied counsel’s application on Ed-gerly’s behalf for a stay of execution pending appeal, counsel on April 6, 1976, applied for the same relief to a single justice of this court. The…