Commonwealth v. O'Dell

The defendant has appealed from a conviction of murder in the second degree on an indictment charging murder in the first degree.1 She contends that there was *258insufficient evidence to show that she participated in a joint enterprise, that the judge’s instructions to the jury on the theory of joint enterprise were inadequate, and that the judge erred in failing to instruct the jury on duress. We affirm.

At trial there was evidence from which the jury could have found that the victim, John Anderson, died from multiple stab wounds to the chest and upper back in an attack which occurred in…