Massachusetts Appeals Court· 8/28/1981

Commonwealth v. Walters

Citations

425 N.E.2d 382
12 Mass. App. Ct. 389
1981 Mass. App. LEXIS 1187

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declining to decide whether value of damage to personal property or value of property itself that must exceed $250
affirming conviction but ordering resentencing where jurors were “warranted” in finding the property damaged to be worth more than one hundred dollars, but jury not instructed on essential element of value
use of a name other than his true name may be admissible as consciousness of guilt
although only the vehicle windshield was struck by a club, “the jury could have inferred that the truck was worth [the then statutory threshold of] more than one hundred dollars”
although only vehicle windshield was struck with club as object of malicious destruction, “the jury could have inferred that the truck was worth [the then statutory threshold of] more than one hundred dollars”
Commonwealth established that defendant, intervening in fist fight, struck one of the combatants with a club, then used the club to smash the windshield of a truck in which that combatant had sought refuge; sufficiency of evidence to show malice not challenged

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