State v. Shaw

This is an appeal from a conviction of the crime of risk of injury to a child. Upon a trial to a jury, the defendant, Carlson Shaw, was found guilty of violating General Statutes § 53-21 by acting “in a manner likely to impair the health or morals of a child under the age of sixteen years . ...” The defendant’s appeal raises two claims of error, one arising out of the admission of certain testimony at the trial, and one arising out of the trial court’s charge to the jury.

The jury might reasonably have found the following facts: In the middle of the afternoon on February 28, 1977, the victim,…