State v. Smith

GLASSMAN, Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court (Oxford County) in April, 1983, 1 the defendant, Philip Smith, was found guilty of Class D assault in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 207 (1983). 2 Smith appeals from the judgment of conviction, assigning as error the admission into evidence at trial of four photographs of the victim, Stephen Chandler, taken after a fight between Chandler and Smith, and the trial justice’s instruction to the jury on the issue of self-defense. We affirm the judgment.

I. Photographs of Victim

The jury could reasonably have found that on November 14, 1980, an…