COMMONWEALTH v. RODRIQUEZ


364 Mass. 87 (1973)

300 N.E.2d 192

COMMONWEALTH vs. HECTOR SANTIAGO RODRIQUEZ (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

August 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Buckley for Hector Santiago Rodriquez.

James L. Clifford for Rogelio Felix Rodriquez, Jr.

Stanley J. Jablonski, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The defendants Hector Santiago Rodriquez (Hector) and Rogelio Felix Rodriquez, Jr. (Felix), indicted for the murder in the first degree of William Alonzo Johnson, and jointly tried, were severally found guilty of that crime, but with recommendation that the penalty of death be not imposed. From the judgments of conviction, the defendant appeal under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. Their argued assigned errors range from the composition of the jury, through...

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