State v. Brown

The defendant was convicted in the Superior Court 0O’Neil, J.) under indictments charging him with attempted murder and first degree assault, against each of which he defended on the theory of accident. In this appeal he claims three grounds for reversal: (1) a violation of his due process rights by the admission of evidence indicating that in the period after receipt of Miranda warnings he failed to apologize to the victim for injuring him; (2) erroneous instructions on the requisite state of mind for attempted murder and on the significance of certain evidence offered to prove the mental…