COMMONWEALTH v. DRUKEN


356 Mass. 503 (1969)

254 N.E.2d 779

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSEPH DRUKEN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 22, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben Goodman for the defendant.

Paul V. Buckley, Assistant District Attorney (John M. Lynch, III, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

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


SPALDING, J.

On April 10, 1968, the defendant was convicted in a District Court on a complaint charging an attempt to break and enter in the nighttime and was sentenced to two years in a house of correction. He appealed to the Superior Court. Following a report of a psychiatric examination of the defendant, a judge of the Superior Court on May 21, 1968, committed the defendant to the Bridgewater State Hospital (Bridgewater) under G.L.c. 123, § 100, as appearing...

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