State v. Jones

Opinion

ZARELLA, J.

The defendant, Michael D. Jones, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of one count of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (3) (first degree reckless assault) for throwing an unopened forty ounce beer bottle at the victim and causing him serious physical injury. The defendant claims that reversal is required because the trial court improperly (1) permitted the jury to consider the charge of first degree reckless assault under count two of the information after it had found him not guilty of the lesser…