FINE, J.
A jury found the defendant, an inmate at M.C.I., Cedar Junction, guilty of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a razor shank, on another inmate, Charles Jenkins. The incident out of which the charge arose occurred in the prison dining hall. The defendant relied on self-defense at trial. Jenkins was not called as a witness. The defendant's appeal is based, in part, on the judge's refusal to give a "missing witness" instruction with respect to the...
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