Legal Opinion
State v. Kearney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided November 29, 1972PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHouse, C. J.
On a jury trial the defendant was found guilty of the crime of murder in the second degree. He has appealed from the judgment rendered on that verdict and has also appealed from the denial of his motion for a new trial. In accordance with a stipulation by the parties, the court ordered that the two appeals be combined for presentation to this court and that a single record be printed.
We find that a decision on one of the defendant’s several assignments of error is dispositive of the merits of the combined appeals. This assignment of error is that the court erred in denying the defendant’s…
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