State v. Anderson

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of the crime of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1). The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in allowing the defendant’s prior conviction into evidence under its full title, (2) in failing to instruct the jury in accordance with the defendant’s request to charge, (3) in stating that the defendant’s use of a knife constituted deadly force, thus removing a factual issue from the jury’s consideration, and (4) in improperly instructing the jury on the offense…