Commonwealth v. Seit

How courts have described this case

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• allowing § 33E relief where \no indication of animosity between [the defendant and the victim] until the episode in suit\ and defendant may have acted in excessive self-defense or in passion upon provocation or sudden combat
• where defendant was sole witness to any part of event, evidence that victim was mean and violent, proved by specific acts, supported the probability that victim was the aggressor
• defendant and victim were friends for a period of more than thirty years
• ballis tician unqualified to testify in area of physiology or pathology
• verdict of murder in the second degree reduced to manslaughter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).