QUIRICO, J.
The defendant Carlos Garcia was convicted of murder in the second degree after a trial by jury in 1970. The judge imposed the statutory sentence of life imprisonment. At trial, Garcia admitted killing the victim, Francisco Alvarado, but claimed that he had acted in self-defense. The case is now before us in a consolidated appeal under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, assigning alleged errors during the trial and in the denial of the 1977 motion for a...
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