Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bowden
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 9, 1980PublishedCited by 279 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
The defendant, Horace Bowden, was tried before a Superior Court judge and a jury. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree and of unlawfully carrying a handgun on his person. He was sentenced to imprisonment for his natural life on the first degree murder conviction and to a term of not less than two and one-half nor more than five years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole on the firearms conviction, to be served concurrently with the murder sentence. He appeals under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, assigning as error various rulings on pretrial motions, jury…
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