STATE v. COELHO

No. 80-248-C.A.

454 A.2d 241 (1982)

STATE v. Peter J. COELHO.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

Reargument Denied January 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Roberts II, Atty. Gen., John E. Migliaccio, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

John F. Sheehan, Providence, for defendant.


OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

On December 9, 1977, a Providence County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Peter J. Coelho with eight counts of embezzlement from the Rhode Island Housing Investment Fund and two counts of conspiring with Claire O'Coin to embezzle from the fund. Because of the illness of O'Coin's attorney, the trial justice severed the cases, and Coelho proceeded to trial alone. The jury found Coelho guilty of five counts of embezzlement and...

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