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- Title: State v. Mortoro
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 08, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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The defendant was tried by a jury on a
substituted information which charged him with
attempting to hinder and prevent a state witness
in violation of 53-148 of the General Statutes.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The court
denied the defendant's motion to set aside the
verdict as contrary to law and against the
evidence, and from the judgment rendered on the
verdict the defendant has appealed, assigning
error in the court's denial of the motion as well
as certain other errors claimed to have occurred
in the course of the trial. Several of the latter
claims were raised for the first time on the
appeal, and these we do not consider. Practice
Book 652; State v. Smith, 156 Conn. 378, 386,
242 A.2d 763; Gulia v. Ortowski, 156 Conn. 40, 44,
238 A.2d 396; State v. Costa, 155 Conn. 304, 306,
232 A.2d 913. The portion of 53-148 under which the defendant
was charged makes it a criminal offense to attempt
to hinder or prevent any person summoned or who
may be used as a witness in any civil or criminal
proceeding from appearing as a witness or from
giving his testimony in any such proceeding. The
denial of the defendant's motion to set aside the
verdict is tested in the light of the evidence
printed in the appendices to the briefs. State
v. Gyuro, 156 Conn. 391, 397, 242 A.2d 734, cert.