State v. Park

The respondent, a boy fifteen years old, was convicted of murder at the October 1962 term of the Kennebec Superior Court on pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. The case is before us on exceptions to the refusal of the presiding justice to give requested instructions to the jury. The exceptions are overruled.

The jury in reaching its verdict could have found the following facts. The respondent “bumped into” the victim Avis Longfellow, a girl fifteen years old, on a camp road at Lake Cobbosseecontee. The victim dropped a child about two years old she was carrying and called…