Legal Opinion
State v. Doucette
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 30, 1959PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
Howard R. Doucette, who is the defendant, and Edward J. Rogers were indicted for the murder of Howard Doucette, Jr., and were tried together by three judges under the provisions of what is now § 54-82 of the General Statutes. Rogers was acquitted. Doucette was convicted of murder in the first degree, and from that judgment this appeal was taken. The state claimed that on September 24, 1955, Doucette murdered the decedent, a male child about two months old, by holding his head up to an unlighted gas oven, after the gas had been turned on, thereby causing death by asphyxiation. For some eight…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Opper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- State v. PundySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1959
- State v. FerroneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
- State v. WaltersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1958
- State v. ReidSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1959
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- State v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
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