State v. Joy

VIOLETTE, Justice.

Defendant, Stephen Joy, appeals from his convictions of murder, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A) & (B) (Supp.1982), 1 and arson, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 802 (Supp.1982), following a jury trial in Superior Court, Cumberland County. On appeal defendant challenges: (1) the instruction to the jury on depraved indifference murder, section 201(1)(B); (2) the sufficiency of the evidence to support the murder conviction; (3) the admission into evidence of a photo of the deceased’s corpse; and (4) the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury that an abnormal condition of mind may give rise to a…