State v. Snow

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

In this “child abuse” case tried to a jury in Superior Court .(Hancock County), defendant was convicted of simple assault, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 207 (Supp.1981), and sentenced to the Maine Correctional Center for 364 days. On appeal, defendant asserts error in the admission of his extrajudicial statement before proof of corpus delicti, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction, and attacks part of the presiding justice’s charge to the jury. Finding merit in the last claim of error, we vacate the judgment of conviction and remand for a new trial.

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