State v. Mebane

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, after a jury trial, of the crime of having a weapon in a vehicle in violation of General Statutes § 29-38.1 The defendant claims that the trial court erred *244(1) in instructing the jury that the state need prove only the defendant’s knowledge of the weapon’s presence and not that the defendant had or possessed it, and (2) in failing to grant his motion for judgment of acquittal.

The jury could reasonably have found the following facts. On December 7,1986, at approximately 1 a.m., Officers Philip Beamon and Vincent Raucci of the New Haven…