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COMMONWEALTH v. GAULDEN

383 Mass. 543 (1981)

420 N.E.2d 905

COMMONWEALTH vs. MINNIE MAE GAULDEN (and a companion case of the same name).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden, Suffolk.

May 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Thomas Martinelli for the defendant.

Dianne M. Dillon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

WILKINS, J.

In October, 1979, a Hampden County jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. In her appeal, which we transferred here on our own motion, the defendant has raised various challenges to her conviction. We deal with those challenges first in this opinion and conclude that the challenges are without merit. On September 9, 1980, following the jury verdict, the judge reduced the verdict from murder in the second degree to a finding of guilty...

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