Commonwealth v. Bedrosian

This is an indictment charging the defendant with murder. He was convicted of murder in the second degree. The case is before us on his exceptions to the exclusion of two questions put by his counsel to a witness called by him, and to the charge “in so far as it stated that the intentional unlawful killing of one human being by another carries with it malice, and in so far as it stated that if the killing was proved to be intentional that, in and of itself, imported malice.”

There was evidence that the defendant had stated that, while he was in the company of the deceased in the woods, they…