Commonwealth v. Gibson

This is an appeal under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, by the defendant, who alleges that various errors of law were made in the course of the trial of an indictment charging him with the murder of John R. Shrake (victim). The jury convicted him of murder in the first degree and the judge sentenced him to Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole for the rest of his natural life. The defendant has assigned and argued as error the following actions of the trial judge: (1) the denial of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment, which motion was predicated on the fact that hearsay…