Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Walden
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 30, 1980PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of a father and a son. He was also convicted of breaking and entering a dwelling house in the daytime with intent to commit larceny and to put a person therein in fear. He received concurrent life sentences on the murder convictions, and a concurrent sentence on the breaking and entering conviction.
The defendant argues four issues and urges that, if the convictions of murder in the first degree are not reversed, this court should exercise its power and duty under G. L. c. 278, § 33E, to direct the entry of verdicts of a lesser degree…
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