Commonwealth v. Bibby

On appeal from his convictions on indictments charging him with kidnapping, G. L. c. 265, § 26, and unlicensed possession of a firearm while not at home or work, G. L. c. 269, § 10(a), the defendant attacks the sufficiency of the evidence on the kidnapping charge and claims error in the judge’s failure to instruct the jury on the issues of specific *159intent and the statutory meaning of the word “firearm.” We affirm the judgments.1

1. The evidence. There was evidence to show that the victim and the defendant had been dating, on and off, for about three years. On the evening of January 24, 1997,…