STATE v. WALTERS


145 Conn. 60 (1958)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. WALLACE M. WALTERS

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond W. Ganim and Samuel S. Freedman, for the appellant (defendant).

Lorin W. Willis, state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, was Otto J. Saur, assistant state's attorney, for the appellee (state).

WYNNE, C. J., BALDWIN, DALY, KING and MURPHY, JS.


KING, J.

The accused was convicted of murder in the first degree committed in the perpetration of a robbery upon the decedent, Dorothy E. Cahill. The verdict contained a recommendation, under the provisions of § 3266d of the 1955 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, that the punishment should be imprisonment for life.

The assignments of error pressed in the brief cover certain instructions supplemental to the basic charge, certain rulings on...

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