Legal Opinion
State v. Tillman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 7, 1964PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKing, C. J.
The defendant was convicted, after a trial to the jury, of the crime of manslaughter in causing the death of his wife, Christine. It was the claim of the state that her death, which occurred between 9 and 9:30 o’clock in the evening of July 21, 1962, was caused by a fall to the ground from the rear porch of the third-floor tenement in which she and the defendant lived, and that the fall was the result of her having been thrown, pushed, or otherwise caused to fall, by the criminal act of the defendant.
A principal ground of the defendant’s appeal involves claimed errors in the admission in…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Opper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Smith v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- State v. LucasSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1959
- Irvin C. Scarbeck v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1963
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3Cited by41 opinions
- State v. RuthSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
- Commonwealth v. FordeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- State v. AvcollieSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
- State v. HaffordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2000
- State v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
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