COMMONWEALTH v. CARNEY

No. 90-P-1129.

31 Mass. App. Ct. 250 (1991)

576 N.E.2d 691

COMMONWEALTH vs. STEPHEN J. CARNEY (and three companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

August 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy Sibbison for Stephen J. Carney.

Stephen Hrones (Murray Kohn with him) for Christopher S. Carney.

Robert C. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WARNER, C.J., BROWN, & GREENBERG, JJ.


GREENBERG, J.

Flames burst from the Bell family barn in Duxbury on the evening of April 28, 1988. The barn was behind Bruce and Daphne Bell's residence where they lived with their daughter, Andrea, and other family members. Daphne Bell, first to notice an orange-yellow light emanating from a window, ran into the barn where she observed two men pouring liquid onto bales of hay. She shouted, prompting both to flee. After returning to her house to sound a telephone alarm...

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