State v. Myrick

CARTER, Justice.

After a bench trial in the Superior Court, Penobscot County, the defendant, John Myrick, was found guilty of violating 15 M.R.S.A. § 393 (1980), 1 a class C crime, which prohibits a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by one year or more imprisonment from owning or having in his possession or under his control any firearm. On appeal, he contends that the indictment was insufficient, that the court’s findings of fact did not establish that he had engaged in criminal conduct, and that § 393 as applied to him constitutes an ex post facto law and a bill of…