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· 6/8/1966

Commonwealth v. Stirling

Citations

  • 218 N.E.2d 81
  • 351 Mass. 68
  • 1966 Mass. LEXIS 611

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  • lack of sign of struggle may be considered in regard to deliberately premeditated malice aforethought
  • “The [weapon] not being automatic but requiring six separate hard pulls to fire the six shots, and the wounds being in the back of the victim’s head without a sign of there having been a struggle, the jury could properly find ‘deliberately premeditated malice aforethought’ ”

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Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Cutter, Spiegel, Reardon

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