Legal Opinion
State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided August 7, 1951PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtInglis, J.
The defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree upon an indictment charging him with wilful, deliberate and premeditated murder. Upon this appeal, he has assigned as error the denial of his motion to set aside the verdict, the sustaining of a demurrer to his challenge to the array of the panel, the denial of his motion for a mistrial, a claimed error in the charge and certain rulings on evidence.
In the early morning of Saturday, July 23, 1949, Grover S. Hart was shot and killed in the clubhouse of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club of Greenwich, where he was employed as a night…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- State v. McDonoughSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
- State v. GuilfoyleSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- State v. GarganoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- State v. SimborskiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1936
- State v. RomeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
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3Cited by64 opinions
- State v. SivriSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1972
- State v. MorrillSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984
- State v. CarpenterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1990
- State v. FoordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1955
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