Commonwealth v. Green

This case arises from an exchange of gunfire between the defendant and the victim, Lament Jones, which left the defendant wounded and Jones dead. The defendant appeals from his conviction of voluntary manslaughter on an indictment *377charging murder in the first degree,1 citing two grounds: (1) that the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the defendant, required an instruction to the jury on defense of another; and (2) that a reasonable jury could have wrongfully concluded from the trial judge’s supplemental instructions that self-defense was only a mitigating factor to a murder…