State v. Huff

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-133 and 53a-134 (a) (3),1 and of assault in the second degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-60 (a) (2).2 He raises three claims of error: (1) that the trial court’s instructions to the jury were constitutionally deficient because, in defining the statutory term “dangerous instrument,” the court omitted the statutory definition of “serious physical injury”; (2) that the court erred in sustaining two objections by the state to the defendant’s…