Commonwealth v. Amaral

The defendant appeals from a conviction on an indictment charging armed robbery while masked (G. L. c. 265, § 17). She assigns as error the denial of her motion for a required finding of not guilty. We affirm the judgment.

In reviewing the denial of a motion for a required finding of not guilty in a criminal case, we consider whether the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth (Commonwealth v. Sandler, 368 Mass. 729, 740 [1975]), and with permissible inferences therefrom, was sufficient with respect to each essential element of the offense to have “satisfied a…