COMMONWEALTH v. COOK


351 Mass. 231 (1966)

218 N.E.2d 393

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT EVERETT COOK.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence F. O'Donnell (John B. Greene with him) for the defendant.

John F. McAuliffe, Assistant District Attorney (James F. Sullivan, Legal Assistant to the Assistant District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

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


KIRK, J.

On an indictment charging him with the murder of William John Treannie at Boston on November 8, 1964, the defendant Cook at a trial held subject to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The case is before us on appeal under G.L.c. 278, § 33E, as amended through St. 1962, c. 453.

Treannie was shot to death by two bullets which lodged in his brain. His body, decapitated and dismembered, was found by...

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