Commonwealth v. Hunt

After a jury trial on an indictment charging the defendant with the first-degree murder of Cherby Lajoie, she was convicted of second-degree murder.2 On appeal, the defendant claims there was insufficient evidence to support her conviction. We affirm.

In the early morning hours of October 6, 2012, after he left a convenience store in the Dorchester section of Boston, a group of people attacked the victim. He was brutally beaten, kicked, and stabbed forty times. One such stab wound was to the victim's head, which was inflicted with such force that the tip of the knife broke off and became…