STATE v. FRANCO


365 A.2d 807 (1976)

STATE of Maine v. Robert J. FRANCO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

November 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Raymond, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard S. Cohen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Augusta, for plaintiff.

Libhart and Ferris by Joel Dearborn, Brewer, Marshall A. Stern, Jerome B. Goldsmith, Bangor, for defendant.

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


WERNICK, Justice.

An indictment returned on January 7, 1974, to the Superior Court (Penobscot County) charged that by killing Theodore J. Townsend, defendant Robert J. Franco had committed the crime of felonious homicide punishable as murder. Defendant was found guilty as charged by a jury and has appealed from the judgment of conviction entered on the verdict.

The appeal, which we deny, raises several issues pertaining to the admissibility of particular evidence...

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