MAKAREWICZ v. COMMONWEALTH


346 Mass. 478 (1963)

194 N.E.2d 388

PETER W. MAKAREWICZ vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard F. Lane for the petitioner.

James W. Bailey, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGET., JJ.


KIRK, J.

Peter W. Makarewicz in this petition for a writ of error contends that his sentence to life imprisonment, imposed by a judge of the Superior Court, was an illegal sentence because the Superior Court, at the time sentence was imposed, had lost jurisdiction of the case. The case was heard by the single justice on the petition, the assignment of errors, and the answer of the Commonwealth which admitted certain allegations of fact but denied error. The single...

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