COMMONWEALTH v. LOCKE


338 Mass. 682 (1959)

157 N.E.2d 233

COMMONWEALTH vs. ALLEN GEORGE LOCKE & others (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin L. Goldenberg, for the defendant Locke.

Joseph J. Balliro, for the defendant Cavanaugh.

John T. Gaffney, Assistant District Attorney, (Donald P. Brennan with him,) for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., RONAN, SPALDING, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


COUNIHAN, J.

These cases arise out of three indictments which were returned by the grand jury for Suffolk County. In the first case the defendants Locke and Cavanaugh were tried with several codefendants on an indictment which charged all of them with conspiring together to aid and assist one Elmer Burke, an inmate of the Suffolk County jail, charged with a felony as the defendants well knew, in endeavoring to escape from jail.

The second indictment charged...

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