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STATE v. JOHNSON

139 Conn. 89 (1952)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. PETER S. JOHNSON

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided July 1, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. A. Daly, public defender, and John A. Arcudi, special assistant public defender, with whom was Charles R. Covert, 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).

BROWN, C. J., JENNINGS, BALDWIN, INGLIS and O'SULLIVAN, JS.

JENNINGS, J.

The defendant has appealed from his conviction of murder in the second degree. He has abandoned his claim that the verdict should have been set aside. The only assignment of error requiring extended discussion is his claim, made in various ways, that the court failed to instruct the jury correctly on the difference between murder and manslaughter and, specifically, on the effect of the defendant's claimed intoxication on the element of implied malice...

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