COMMONWEALTH v. ROJAS


388 Mass. 626 (1983)

447 N.E.2d 4

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROGER PEREZ ROJAS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 5, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlo A. Obligato for the defendant.

James W. Sahakian, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The defendant's appeal from his conviction of murder in the first degree challenges only the judge's denial of his motion for a required finding of not guilty presented at the close of the Commonwealth's case. As will be apparent from the facts, the jury would have been warranted in finding beyond a reasonable doubt that whoever killed the victim did so with deliberate premeditation, with malice aforethought, and in the commission of the felony of armed...

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