COMMONWEALTH v. KERRIGAN


345 Mass. 508 (1963)

188 N.E.2d 484

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN JOSEPH KERRIGAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

February 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. O'Halloran for the defendant.

Richard S. Kelley, Assistant District Attorney (Ruth I. Abrams, Assistant District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

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


SPALDING, J.

In the early morning of September 3, 1960, Lawrence W. Gorman, a Cambridge police officer, was leading two men, whom he had just arrested in the Kendall Square area, to a police call box. Suddenly the men attempted to get away and during the scuffle one of them shot Gorman in the back. He fell to the sidewalk and when brought to a hospital shortly thereafter was pronounced dead. Other police officers near by heard the shots, and came at once to the scene...

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