STATE v. WALLACE


333 A.2d 72 (1975)

STATE of Maine v. Milton I. WALLACE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

February 19, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chadbourn H. Smith, Vernon I. Arey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for plaintiff.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, by Peter J. Rubin, Portland, Joseph L. Singer, Brunswick, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD and DELAHANTY, JJ.


ARCHIBALD, Justice.

Nine days after he was reported missing, the body of eight year old John Nason was found under a bed in the defendant's apartment, wrapped in a sheet in an "advanced state of postmortem degeneration and discoloration, and gaseous putrification." The ankles were tied together with a wire cord. Cause of death was attributed to asphyxiation. Simultaneously with the discovery of the body defendant was arrested, charged with the homicide and ultimately...

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