State v. McNair

Opinion

LAVERY, J.

The defendant, Gwendolyn McNair, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1). The defendant claims that the trial court improperly (1) admitted statements made by a witness as evidence under the spontaneous utterance exception to the hearsay rule, (2) admitted evidence of the victim’s pregnancy at the time of the incident and (3) charged the jury on self-defense. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The jury reasonably could have found the following facts. On the…