COMMONWEALTH v. FESTA


369 Mass. 419 (1976)

341 N.E.2d 276

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN L. FESTA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 5, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Stanziani for the defendant.

Alan L. Kovacs, Assistant District Attorney (Bonnie H. MacLeod-Griffin, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

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


REARDON, J.

The defendant was indicted on March 6, 1974, for murder in the first degree of Adolph Abruzzese, and in October, 1974, was tried, found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal is here under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. He argues six assignments of error which will be treated seriatim below.

A jury could have found that on January 27, 1974, about 3 A.M., Abruzzese was shot in the head in his Malden...

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