Legal Opinion
State v. Wells
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 1, 1980PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.
The defendant appeals from his conviction of assault, a violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 207, entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) following a jury trial and verdict of guilty of said offense. At a previous hearing before a judge of the District Court (Portland), the defendant had encountered the same result. The defendant alleges error in the Superior Court’s exclusion of the testimony of a character witness whom he sought to produce in his behalf. The ruling below was correct and we affirm the Superior Court conviction.
On September 6, 1979 the…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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3Cited by19 opinions
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