COMMONWEALTH v. HADDOCK

No. 98-P-348.

46 Mass. App. Ct. 246 (1999)

COMMONWEALTH v. COLLEEN HADDOCK.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

January 28, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon R. Maddox for the defendant.

Cynthia M. Pepyne, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GREENBERG, GILLERMAN, & SPINA, JJ.


GREENBERG, J.

Colleen Haddock, the defendant, concedes that when two men came to repossess her bedroom set and telephone on March 7, 1997, she whacked one of them with a wrought iron poker. The question she raises on appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to satisfy a rational trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt that she did not act in reasonable self-defense of herself or her property. See Commonwealth v. Johnson, 426 Mass...

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