COMMONWEALTH v. FRENCH


357 Mass. 356 (1970)

259 N.E.2d 195

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILFRED ROY FRENCH. (and five companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 4, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Balliro for the defendant Tameleo.

Manuel Katz for the defendant French.

Ronald J. Chisholm for the defendant Cassesso.

Albert L. Hutton, Jr. (John B. Greene with him) for the defendant Grieco.

Chester C. Paris for the defendant Salvati.

David Berman for the defendant Limone.

Jack I. Zalkind, Assistant District Attorney (James M. McDonough, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

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


CUTTER, J.

French and Grieco were indicted on October 25, 1967, for the murder of Edward Deegan on March 12, 1965. Tameleo, Limone, Cassesso, and Salvati were separately indicted as accessories before the fact. All these defendants, together with Joseph Baron (born Barboza), were charged in one indictment with conspiracy to murder Deegan, and in another indictment with conspiracy to murder Anthony J. Stathopoulos.

French was found guilty of murder in the first...

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