COMMONWEALTH v. BOWLER


407 Mass. 304 (1990)

553 N.E.2d 534

COMMONWEALTH vs. MARTIN BOWLER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Sheketoff for the defendant.

Wendy Murphy, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

On November 19, 1986, a jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. The defendant appealed from his conviction, and we transferred the case here on our own initiative. The defendant argues on appeal that the trial judge's instructions to the jury concerning the significance of the defendant's intoxication at the time of the crime were erroneous in light of our decision in March, 1987, in...

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