State v. Lee
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for murder in the second degree, tried to the jury in the Superior Court for New Haven County before Robinson, J.; verdict and judgment of not guilty, and appeal by the State for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Indictment for murder in the second degree, tried to the jury in the Superior Court for New Haven County before Robinson, J.; verdict and judgment of not guilty, and appeal by the State for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. It is important in the interests of public justice that, if by errors arising upon the trial an improper verdict was secured, the case should be again heard, that in the new trial the errors before made, may be corrected. It was equally important that the State should secure a proper verdict, as it is…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The defendant was indicted for the crime of murder in the second degree, was acquitted upon trial to the jury, and this is an appeal by the State, in the nature of a motion for a new trial, on the ground of alleged errors in the charge of the court and in the admission and exclusion of evidence.
■The defendant makes a preliminary claim that the State has, under our law, no right of appeal to this court when the accused has been acquitted by a jury, and bases his claim upon two propositions: 1. A law authorizing procedure for the correction of errors in instructions to the jury, or in the…
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