Commonwealth v. Bonomi

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• injuries showed conscious purpose to kill continuing for length of time and warranted finding of murder committed with premeditation
• evidence of defendant’s extramarital affair admissible where other abundant evidence of marital troubles “could be found likely to produce easily provoked and violent state of mind”
• evidence of argument between defendant and victim within three months of killing, in which he called her “a dirty son of a bitch,” admissible to show hostility
• \The injuries inflicted on the deceased showed a conscious and fixed purpose to kill continuing for a length of time and warranted a finding of murder with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought\
• consciousness of guilt may be inferred from defendant’s wilfully false statements
• evidence that defendant had thrown into a fire a piece of iron which could have been used to commit the murder with which he was charged was admissible even “without direct proof that the particular instrument was in fact the one used”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).