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COMMONWEALTH v. ELLISON

376 Mass. 1 (1978)

379 N.E.2d 560

COMMONWEALTH vs. ELLA MAE ELLISON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max D. Stern for the defendant.

Robert J. McKenna, Jr., Assistant District Attorney (Edward M. Burns, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, & Paul A. Mishkin, Special Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Charlotte Anne Perretta for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

KAPLAN, J.

For involvement in the robbery of a pawn-shop during which a man was killed, a jury found the defendant Ella Mae Ellison guilty on an indictment for murder in the first degree and on four indictments for armed robbery. She received concurrent life sentences.1 This is an appeal pursuant to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from the judgments of conviction; consolidated herewith is an...

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