The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree of his wife, Mary Harrison, without recommendation by the jury that the sentence of death be not imposed. G.L.c. 265, § 2. A death sentence was imposed and execution of the sentence was stayed. The defendant filed a claim of appeal under G.L.c. 278, § 33B, with twenty-five assignments of error, of which the eighth, twenty-third, and twenty...
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