State v. Duguay

The respondent Vincent E. Duguay was found guilty of the murder of Annette Cross at the March 1960 Term of the Androscoggin Superior Court. The case comes before us on appeal and three exceptions.

Exception I

Three colored photographs, or slides, of parts of the head and brain of the deceased taken during the autopsy were admitted over objection of the respondent. They were shown to the court and jury enlarged by projection on a screen, and in like manner to the Law Court at argument.

The deceased was killed by a bullet in the brain from a riñe discharged by the respondent. The pathologist, who…