Persampieri v. Commonwealth

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• taunting of depressed wife to commit suicide, informing her of gun location, loading gun and directing her in its use
• indictment count charging defendant with murder by aiding and abetting suicide held susceptible to construction that defendant charged as principal in first degree; whether suicide is crime in Massachusetts not considered
• jury warranted in convicting defendant of involuntary manslaughter where he provided wife with gun, taunted her, and encouraged her to commit suicide, resulting in her killing herself

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