Legal Opinion
State v. Savage
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 9, 1971PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLoiselle, J.
A jury found the defendant guilty of incest in violation of § 53-223 of the General Statutes. The defendant has appealed from the judgment rendered on the jury’s verdict of guilty. He has assigned error in the finding, in certain of the court’s evidentiary rulings and in the court’s refusal to grant his motions for a mistrial and to set aside the verdict.
We turn first to the defendant’s extensive attack on the finding. A finding of the facts which the respective parties offered evidence to prove and claimed to have proved is superfluous in a case tried to the jury unless error is claimed in…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Remmer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- State v. LeopoldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- United States v. James Miller, A/K/A Frank James CoppolaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Ferino v. PalmerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1947
- State v. SebastianSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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3Cited by49 opinions
- State v. PiskorskiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
- Christian v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1995
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1975
- State v. RuizSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1976
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