COMMONWEALTH v. JONES


382 Mass. 387 (1981)

416 N.E.2d 502

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT K. JONES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

January 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Fitzgerald for the defendant.

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

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


HENNESSEY, C.J.

This is an appeal from the defendant's convictions of manslaughter, homicide by motor vehicle, and operating to endanger. On July 16, 1977, at approximately 5:30 A.M., the defendant, Robert K. Jones, 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...

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