COMMONWEALTH v. SOULIA


325 Mass. 155 (1949)

89 N.E.2d 514

COMMONWEALTH vs. HENRY N. SOULIA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

December 30, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.T. Garvey, (M.G. Kane with him,) for the defendant.

S.A. Moynahan, District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

The defendant was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder by shooting on November 22, 1948, at Chicopee of Francis W. Hudson. The evidence warranted the finding of the following facts. The defendant and Hudson were not acquainted with each other, but the defendant had met Hudson's wife where she was at work, and for a considerable time had maintained adulterous relations with her. He had asked her to elope with him, but she had refused to do so...

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