COMMONWEALTH v. KLECIAK


350 Mass. 679 (1966)

216 N.E.2d 417

COMMONWEALTH vs. LEO J. KLECIAK.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Efrem A. Gordon for the defendant.

Leonard E. Gibbons, Assistant District Attorney (Matthew J. Ryan, Jr., District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


SPIEGEL, J.

The defendant was tried on an indictment which charged that on June 3, 1964, he "did assault and beat, one Stella Kleciak, with intent to murder her, by shooting her, and by such assault, beating and shooting, did murder the said Stella Kleciak." The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree with a recommendation that the sentence of death be not imposed. The case was tried subject to G...

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