State v. Reid

The indictment returned by the grand jury charged the defendant with the first degree murder of Florine McCluney “in attempting to perpetrate a robbery.” The claims of proof material to the consideration of the defendant’s assignments of error will be summarized. Mrs. McCluney was a neighbor who had known the defendant from infancy. She was an especial friend of his mother and had always been friendly with him. She owned a Buick car which she kept in a parking lot near her home in Hartford. At about 4 o’clock in the after noon of January 15, 1957, the defendant, who was unemployed, left his…