Legal Opinion
State v. Clark
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided March 2, 1976PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCotter, J.
James Clark was indicted by a grand jury for murder in the first degree. He was convicted, after a trial to a jury, of murder in the second degree in the fatal shooting of William Streater, who died on February 8, 1970, under what was then § 53-9 of the General Statutes. He was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment and has appealed from the judgment rendered.
The. defendant, in his appeal, has claimed error in the charge, in the restriction of the defendant’s cross-examination of a state’s witness, in the denial of his motion for permission to file a motion to set aside the verdict and…
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