Legal Opinion
State v. Spillane
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 24, 2001No. SC 16215PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SULLIVAN, J.
The defendant, Robert W. Spillane, was convicted, following a jury trial, of the crime of larceny in the third degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-124 (a).1 The defendant appealed to the Appellate Court, claiming “that the trial court improperly (1) denied his motion for acquittal at the end of the state’s case-in-chief, (2) denied his motion for acquittal at the conclusion of all of the evidence, (3) omitted from its final jury instructions the definition of ‘to deprive’ or ‘to appropriate’ as set out in General Statutes § 53a-1182 and thus failed to instruct the…
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