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STATE v. PETERSON

366 A.2d 525 (1976)

STATE of Maine v. Bruno E. PETERSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

December 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Brennan, Atty. Gen., John R. Atwood, Charles K. Leadbetter, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, Richard Wise, Law Student Intern, for plaintiff.

Grossman, Faber & Miller, P. A. by Edward B. Miller, Barry M. Faber, Rockland, for defendant.

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

WERNICK, Justice.

Defendant Bruno E. Peterson has appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court (Knox County) entered upon a jury verdict, returned February 27, 1975, finding defendant guilty of felonious homicide punishable as manslaughter.1

We deny the appeal.

The jury could justifiably have found the following facts. Defendant spent the evening of January 25, 1974 playing pool in a bar in Belfast, Maine, with Russell...

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