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COMMONWEALTH v. GRIFFIN

8 Mass. App. Ct. 276 (1979)

392 N.E.2d 1220

COMMONWEALTH vs. DONALD K. GRIFFIN.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Berman (John F. Zamparelli with him) for the defendant.

Robert M. Raciti, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: KEVILLE, GOODMAN, & GREANEY, JJ.

KEVILLE, J.

The defendant appeals pursuant to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from his conviction of involuntary manslaughter after a trial by jury. He assigns as error the denial of his motion for a directed verdict, the exclusion of the word "Accident" from an autopsy report, the admission in evidence of an expert's answer to a hypothetical question, and the trial judge's failure to strike allegedly improper arguments of the prosecutor.

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