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COMMONWEALTH v. CLIFFORD

374 Mass. 293 (1978)

372 N.E.2d 1267

COMMONWEALTH vs. FRANK CLIFFORD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

January 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Donahue for the defendant.

L. Jeffrey Meehan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

The defendant was tried and found guilty by a jury on two indictments, one charging that he wilfully and maliciously set fire to the Mayflower Hotel in Springfield, and the other charging him with murder in the first degree of one Robert Stokes. On September 21, 1974, the judge sentenced the defendant to imprisonment for life on the indictment for murder in the first degree and fifteen to twenty years on the indictment for arson; he ordered the sentences...

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