COMMONWEALTH v. RICHARD FERGUSON


365 Mass. 1 (1974)

309 N.E.2d 182

COMMONWEALTH vs. RICHARD FERGUSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Wilton for the defendant.

Elizabeth C. Casey, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, & KAPLAN, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

Richard Ferguson, convicted by a jury of the crimes of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, the weapon specified under each charge being a knife, takes his appeal under the provisions of G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. He assigns eleven errors and argues ten of them. We affirm the judgments.

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