COMMONWEALTH v. DE CHRISTOFORO


360 Mass. 531 (1971)

277 N.E.2d 100

COMMONWEALTH vs. BENJAMIN A. De CHRISTOFORO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

December 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manuel Katz for the defendant.

John F. Mee, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., CUTTER, SPIEGEL, REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & HENNESSEY, JJ.


REARDON, J.

This is an appeal by the defendant under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from his conviction for first degree murder in the Superior Court. The jury, which unanimously recommended that the death penalty not be imposed, also found the defendant guilty of illegal possession of firearms. The case comes to us on a transcript of the proceedings below, a summary of the record, and the defendant's assignment of errors.

The following facts are undisputed...

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