State v. Therrien

In appealing his first degree murder conviction, the defendant argues that the Superior Court {DiClerico, J.) committed two errors: (1) in refusing to charge the jury that the defendant could not be found guilty as an accomplice for performing any act except the act of stabbing, which was the only act specified in the indictment; and (2) in failing to withdraw the first degree murder charge from the jury’s consideration on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to prove premeditation and deliberation. We affirm.

The jury was entitled to find that during the evening of August 9, 1985,…