State v. Wilson

A jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-55 (a) (1) and a sentence of ten to twenty years was imposed. The court, O’Donnell, J., denied the defendant’s motions for acquittal and for a new trial, and this appeal followed. The defendant claims on appeal that the trial judge erred (1) in denying his motion to suppress incriminatory statements made to police during his station house interrogation and (2) in allowing the state to introduce evidence of prior misconduct toward the infant victim and her sister. We find error on both…