STATE v. JEFFERDS

Ex. No. 9898.

152 A.2d 231 (1959)

STATE v. Chester G. JEFFERDS.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 19, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Joseph Nugent, Attorney General, Edward F.J. Dwyer, Raymond J. Pettine, Assistant Attorneys General, for State.

Aram A. Arabian, Public Defender, for defendant.


ROBERTS, J.

This is an indictment charging the defendant with the murder of his wife on July 9, 1952. After a trial in the superior court the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree. His motion for a new trial was denied. The case is before us on the defendant's exceptions to the denial of his motion for a new trial, to certain evidentiary rulings, and to the charge of the trial justice.

The exception first urged by defendant is that pertaining...

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