State v. Washington

After a trial to a jury, the defendant was found guilty of the crime of attempted assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53U-491 *706and 53a-59 (a) (l)2 and was acquitted of a charge of first degree robbery. The defendant, in his appeal from the judgment of conviction, raises the following four claims of error: (1) whether the trial court’s instructions deprived him of his constitutional rights by presenting for the jury’s consideration theories of liability unsupported by the evidence; (2) whether the court failed to. instruct the jury adequately on all the essential…