Commonwealth v. Stillwell

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• reversing first-degree murder conviction where jury instructions used portions of Webster charge explicitly placing burden on defendant to disprove malice and stating presumption that defendant intended “all the natural, probable, and usual consequences of his own acts”
• reversing first-degree murder conviction because of faulty malice instruction

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