Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court June 22, 1989 (Commonwealth v. Libby)

Wilkins, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree of Bruce R. Cullen in August, 1970. The judge charged the jury on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty as the bases for a conviction of murder in the first degree. Except for his general claim for relief under G. L. c. 278, § 33E (1986 ed.