WILKINS, J.
The Appeals Court held that the defendant, convicted of involuntary manslaughter on an indictment charging murder in the first degree, was entitled to a new trial because the trial judge erroneously ruled as a matter of law that evidence concerning the defendant's state of mind at the time of the alleged crime was inadmissible. Commonwealth v. Papadinis,
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