State v. Jones

The defendant was convicted upon an information which charged that on September 3, 1943, at New Haven, he assaulted and carnally knew and abused a female under the age of sixteen years. In his appeal he has assigned error in a ruling upon evidence. The defense was an alibi. In examining a witness called to support it, the defendant asked several questions, stated in a single paragraph of the finding, which were excluded. The only exception taken was to a question asking whether the witness knew of his own knowledge that the defendant had been working out of the state for a period including…