State v. Carr

The state charged that the defendant did offer, confer and agree to confer benefits upon a public servant, in the form of the payment of sums of money, as consideration for a police officer’s exercise of discretion as a public servant, in violation of § 53a-147 of the General Statutes.1 A jury *460found the defendant guilty and he has appealed from the judgment rendered on the verdict. The defendant in his preliminary statement includes fourteen issues intended to he presented on appeal. He has, however, pursued in his brief only eight claims of error, and one of those was abandoned in oral…