COMMONWEALTH v. RUCKER


358 Mass. 298 (1970)

264 N.E.2d 656

COMMONWEALTH vs. MOSES L. RUCKER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Whiteside, II (Reuben Goodman with him) for the defendant.

Thomas J. Mundy, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., SPALDING, KIRK, REARDON, & QUIRICO, JJ.


REARDON, J.

The case is before the court on the defendant's appeal and assignments of error pursuant to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. The defendant was indicted and found guilty of the crime of arson. The defendant relies on three principal assignments, first, claiming prejudicial error in the admission of testimony of Robert Boyd, a fireman and arson investigator, as to the substance of a conversation he had at the scene of the fire with a district chief, William...

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