State v. Williams

CARTER, Justice.

On November 20, 1980, the defendant, Eugene T. Williams, was convicted in Superior Court (Kennebec County) of criminal threatening with the use of a firearm, on the return of a jury verdict. His appeal from the judgment entered pursuant thereto presents, for the first time since Maine’s adoption of the Criminal Code, an issue concerning the threatened use of deadly force in the context of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 105 justification. We conclude, on the record before us, that the Superior Court’s giving of a jury instruction regarding the possible existence of deadly force as an…