STATE v. MELVIN


390 A.2d 1024 (1978)

STATE of Maine v. Donald MELVIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

August 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Seitzinger, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Augusta, for plaintiff.

Gaston M. Dumais (orally), Lewiston, for defendant.

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


WERNICK, Justice.

In separate indictments dated January 8, 1976, defendant Donald Melvin was charged in the Superior Court (Knox County) with the offenses of felonious homicide punishable as murder (17 M.R.S.A. § 2651) and assault on a prison officer (34 M.R.S.A. § 710). The indictments were consolidated for trial, and a jury found defendant guilty as charged. Defendant has appealed from the judgments of conviction entered on the jury verdict.

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