State v. Wynter

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of the *656crime of assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (l).1 The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in allowing into evidence the defendant’s statements to the police made while he was in the hospital, (2) in excluding certain testimony by the defendant and his doctor, (3) in failing to allow the defendant to rehabilitate a critical defense witness, (4) in instructing the jury on the alternative forms of the essential element of serious physical injury, (5) in…