COMMONWEALTH v. MacDONALD (NO. 1)


368 Mass. 395 (1975)

333 N.E.2d 189

COMMONWEALTH vs. RONALD MALCOMB MacDONALD (No. 1).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin K. Leppo for the defendant.

Thomas J. Mundy, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


WILKINS, J.

The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree, without a recommendation that the sentence of death be not imposed. He also was found guilty of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. There was evidence from which the jury could have found that the defendant and one Richard Mandile (Mandile) fired numerous shots through the open door of a South Boston tavern, killing one man and wounding another.

The defendant claimed...

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