COMMONWEALTH v. HARRISON


342 Mass. 279 (1961)

173 N.E.2d 87

COMMONWEALTH vs. TUCKER HARRISON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

March 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin G. Cavanaugh, for the defendant.

Matthew J. Ryan, Jr., District Attorney, (Leonard E. Gibbons, Assistant District Attorney with him,) for the Commonwealth.

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


WHITTEMORE, J.

The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree of his wife, Mary Harrison, without recommendation by the jury that the sentence of death be not imposed. G.L.c. 265, § 2. A death sentence was imposed and execution of the sentence was stayed. The defendant filed a claim of appeal under G.L.c. 278, § 33B, with twenty-five assignments of error, of which the eighth, twenty-third, and twenty...

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