COMMONWEALTH v. MEDINA


372 Mass. 772 (1977)

364 N.E.2d 203

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILLIAM MEDINA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Conn for the defendant.

Peter W. Agnes, Jr., Assistant District Attorney (Sheila Ryan, Legal Assistant, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

On trial for the murder of his wife, the defendant moved at the close of the Commonwealth's case for a directed verdict of acquittal. The motion was granted, as to so much of the indictment as charged murder in the first degree, for the reason that there was insufficient evidence of premeditation. On the whole case, the jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree, and from the judgment of conviction this appeal is taken pursuant to G...

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