State v. Miles

Opinion

FLYNN, J.

The defendant, Tyronesha Miles, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a trial by jury, of attempt to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 and 53a-54 (a), and assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1) arising out of the stabbing of Devore Anderson with a knife two times in the abdomen and three times in the back. The defendant claims that (1) the trial court improperly excluded evidence that Anderson had been stabbed five years earlier in an unrelated incident by *552an unidentified assailant, (2) the…