Massachusetts Appeals Court· 6/26/1987

Commonwealth v. Mercado

Citations

509 N.E.2d 300
24 Mass. App. Ct. 391
1987 Mass. App. LEXIS 2009

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“evidence may be sufficient as against a motion for a required finding although there are elements in it that are inconsistent or contradictory”
defendant fractured bone structure of the victim’s face and did permanent damage to the inner ear by beating with a baseball bat
common purpose may develop quite suddenly so that “at the climactic moments the parties consciously acted together;” there need not have been an anticipatory compact
an intent to maim or disfigure readily could be inferred where a baseball bat was used to assault a victim who already had been “beaten senseless”
defendant’s contention that there was no proof he knew, before the incident began, that there was a bat in the trunk of the car amounts to an “irrelevancy”
insufficient evidence where use of shod foot was no more than a nudge

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Judges: Grant, Kaplan, Warner

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