Commonwealth v. Carrion

The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree and was tried subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. A verdict was directed of not guilty on so much of the indictment as charged murder in the first de- grec, and the defendant was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Various assignments of error were alleged and are pressed before us.

The jury could have found that the victim Ramonita Matos resided with the defendant, together with her three children, in a small apartment in Boston, and that during the evening of July 18, 1974, the defendant went into the room occupied by the…