Commonwealth v. Woods

Judgments of conviction on indictments charging the defendant with rape and another crime were affirmed by this court on March 21,1978. Commonwealth v. Simpson, 6 Mass. App. Ct. 856 (1978).1 On March 26, 1979, the defend*837ant filed a pro se motion for a new trial, alleging (1) that he was tried for the rape of a white woman before a jury containing no blacks and that all of the blacks called to be seated were “taken off by theD.A.,” and (2) that after a jury had been empanelled defense counsel made a motion, which was heard at the side bar, seeking to require the assistant district attorney to…