STATE v. STACKPOLE


349 A.2d 185 (1975)

STATE of Maine v. Michael D. STACKPOLE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

December 12, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Leadbetter, Chadbourn H. Smith, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, Anthony J. Cirillo, County Atty., Skowhegan, for plaintiff.

Eames & Eames by Donald E. Eames, Skowhegan, Bernard R. Cratty, Waterville, for defendant.

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


DELAHANTY, Justice.

Michael D. Stackpole was indicted by the Somerset County Grand Jury for a felonious homicide punishable as murder. From a jury verdict finding him guilty of that crime, he has appealed. We deny the appeal.

The trial jury which decided the defendant's guilt was entitled to find the following facts.

The defendant, an eighteen-year-old farmhand with a seventh-grade education and an estimated I.Q. of 76, was a second cousin and acquaintance...

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