COMMONWEALTH v. CHAPMAN


345 Mass. 251 (1962)

186 N.E.2d 818

COMMONWEALTH vs. RALPH W. CHAPMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

December 20, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Thomas Zinni (Hrant H. Russian with him) for the defendant.

Joseph D. Neylon, Assistant District Attorney (Ruth I. Abrams, Assistant District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

The defendant, who was tried to a jury under an indictment charging armed robbery, was found guilty. The trial was conducted subject to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, and the case comes here by appeal.

1. The seventh assignment of error, which will be discussed first, is based on the defendant's exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict.

There was evidence of the following: On November 13, 1961, the defendant, aged...

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