COMMONWEALTH v. PETERSON


348 Mass. 702 (1965)

205 N.E.2d 719

COMMONWEALTH vs. LEROY PETERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 31, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Melley, Assistant District Attorney (Thomas J. Mundy, Jr., with him), for the Commonwealth.

Louis M. Nordlinger for the defendant.

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


SPALDING, J.

On August 7, 1962, the grand jury for Suffolk County returned two indictments, in each of which the defendant was charged with an assault with a dangerous weapon on a police officer. The defendant pleaded guilty to these indictments on October 11, 1962, and was sentenced to two concurrent indeterminate terms at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord (Concord).

On May 6, 1963, while the defendant was serving these sentences, the...

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