State v. Williams

After a trial to a jury, the defendant, Mickey Williams, was convicted of the crimes of burglary in the third degree, in violation of General Statutes § SSa-lOS,1 and larceny in the second degree, in violation of General Statutes (Rev. to 1981) § 53a-123.2 From this judgment the defendant appeals, claiming that the trial court erred: (1) in its jury instructions on the elements of burglary in the third degree in that it unconstitutionally relieved the state of its burden of proving that he acted with the requisite specific intent; (2) in its reinstruction to the jury on the issue of value;…