COMMONWEALTH v. JONES


9 Mass. App. Ct. 103 (1980)

399 N.E.2d 1087

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT K. JONES.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

February 4, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Fitzgerald (Daniel DelVecchio, Jr., with him) for the defendant.

Don L. Carpenter, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: BROWN, GREANEY, & PERRETTA, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

On July 16, 1977, at approximately 5:30 A.M. the defendant, an off duty Mansfield police officer, while driving his car on the mid-Cape highway in Barnstable, travelled in the wrong direction in the eastbound lane and collided head-on with an approaching van. As a result of the collision, two people in the van were instantly killed and a third died on July 31, 1977. Subsequent indictments charged the defendant with three counts of involuntary manslaughter...

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