Commonwealth v. Paton

How courts have described this case

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• within discretion to foreclose argument that \would have required the jury 'to speculate on a hypothesis not supported by the evidence'\
• judge not required to charge on self-defense, either upon request or sua sponte, where jury would be left to speculate on hypothesis not supported by evidence
• all finding insufficient evidence to require an instruction concerning the law of self-defense

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