State v. Burnham

GLASSMAN, Justice.

The defendant, Royal Burnham, appeals from a judgment of conviction of aggravated assault, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 208(1)(A), following a jury trial in the Superior Court, Knox County. 1 The defendant alleges four errors all relating to the admissibility of evidence. We affirm the judgment.

The victim of this assault was the ten-month-old daughter of Linda Carter, the woman with whom the defendant had been living for three to four months preceding the assault. On the day of the offense, November 3,1977, the defendant and Linda Carter took the infant and her older sister to be…