COMMONWEALTH v. JOYCE


18 Mass. App. Ct. 417 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 214

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILLIAM M. JOYCE (and companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Donovan for William M. Joyce.

Geoffrey C. Packard for Francis X. Devin.

John A. Kiernan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: BROWN, DREBEN, & WARNER, JJ.


DREBEN, J.

The defendants, Joyce and Devin, were each convicted on three indictments for assault with a dangerous weapon and one for involuntary manslaughter. They allege numerous grounds of appeal, including insufficiency of evidence, improper disallowance of their peremptory challenges to one of the jurors, and failure properly to charge the jury. We affirm Devin's convictions but reverse those of Joyce because we conclude that he was entitled to an instruction...

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