STATE v. BRIDGES


413 A.2d 937 (1980)

STATE of Maine v. Dalton Leroy BRIDGES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided April 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Leadbetter (orally), Pasquale Perrino, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for plaintiff.

Nisbet, MacNichol & Ludwig, P. A., Francis M. Jackson (orally), Alexander MacNichol, South Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., WERNICK, GODFREY and GLASSMAN, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A. R. J.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

In a jury-waived trial in the Superior Court, Cumberland County, defendant was convicted for murder of his estranged wife, Diane Bridges, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A), and for aggravated assault upon Robert R. Richard, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 208 (Supp.1979). On appeal from the murder conviction, defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence of the requisite culpable state of mind, the burden of proof placed upon him to prove his defense...

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