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COMMONWEALTH v. KING

374 Mass. 501 (1978)

373 N.E.2d 208

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILLIE JAMES KING.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

February 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Russell Hodgdon (Susan J. Baronoff with him) for the defendant.

William T. Walsh, Jr., Special Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & ABRAMS, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

Gary Butler died of knife wounds at 5:15 P.M., December 7, 1970, twenty minutes after his arrival at Wesson Memorial Hospital in Springfield. The defendant Willie James King was tried for the murder of Butler in June, 1971. He was convicted of murder in the first degree, with a jury recommendation that the death penalty be not imposed. Accordingly he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Appeal from the judgment under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, reaches...

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