COMMONWEALTH v. BELTON


352 Mass. 263 (1967)

225 N.E.2d 53

COMMONWEALTH vs. CALVIN BELTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 31, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Jay Skinner for the defendant.

Angelo Morello, Assistant District Attorney (Paul F. Cavanaugh, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

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


SPALDING, J.

The defendant was indicted for the murder of Clifford Sheets, the indictment charging murder in the second degree. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The case, having been tried subject to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, comes here on the defendant's appeal.

The evidence was as follows: On August 15, 1965, shortly before midnight, Sheets, the night watchman, was found lying in the corridor of the fourteenth floor of the YWCA building in...

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