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COMMONWEALTH vs. TOMMY WILLIAMS (and five companion cases [Note 1]).
Present: HALE, C.J., ROSE, & GRANT, JJ.
SIX INDICTMENTS found and returned in the Superior Court on May 10, 1973.
The cases were tried before Connolly, J.
Kenneth Weiss for the defendants.
Garrett H. Byrne, District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
warrant an inference of possession by either defendant of any of the articles in question.
The virtually identical bills of exceptions reveal only the following. In the course of observing the apartment where the guns and heroin were subsequently found, two Boston police officers had seen both defendants enter and leave "several" times, or on "several" occasions. At approximately 3 P.M. on March 22, 1973, one of those officers, along with other officers, sought entrance to the apartment in order to execute a search warrant. Roger answered the outer door, which opened into the living room. One or two women, not arrested, were in the living room. Tommy was discovered in bed in a room adjoining the living room. One of the searching officers was "aware" Tommy had been in the hospital the day before the search. During the course of the search the two shotguns and 275 envelopes containing heroin were discovered in the kitchen. Roger was immediately arrested, but Tommy was not, "because of his condition."
to show dominion or control over the apartment as a whole (compare Commonwealth v. Flaherty, 358 Mass. 817 , 818 ), nor were the unnumbered comings and goings of the defendants at unspecified times and intervals in the past. See Commonwealth v. Pursley, 2 Mass. App. Ct. 910 (1975). Compare Commonwealth v. Flaherty, 358 Mass. 817 , 817-818 (1971). Contrast Commonwealth v. Mott, 2 Mass. App. Ct. 47 , 53-54 (1974); Commonwealth v. Xiarhos, 2 Mass. App. Ct. 225 , 231-232 (1974); Commonwealth v. Lee, 2 Mass. App. Ct. 700 , 704-705 (1974).
The defendant's exceptions are sustained; the verdicts are set aside; on each indictment judgment is to be entered for the defendant.
[Note 1] Two of the companion cases are against Tommy Williams and three are against Roger Williams.

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