Late in 1977 the defendant was convicted of escape from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord. G.L.c. 268, § 16. A single justice of this court allowed a motion for the late filing of an appeal, and the defendant appealed to the Appeals Court. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion to consider novel questions with respect to the doctrine of necessity. We affirm the conviction...
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