STATE v. POWELL


452 A.2d 977 (1982)

STATE of Maine v. David POWELL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided December 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Povich, Dist. Atty., Genevieve Stetson, Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally), Machias, for plaintiff.

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Michael D. Seitzinger (orally), Augusta, Anthony W. Beardsley, Ellsworth, for defendant.

Before GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS, CARTER and WATHEN, JJ.


WATHEN, Justice.

The defendant, David Powell, was convicted of aggravated criminal mischief, Class C, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 805 (Supp.1982), after a trial by jury in Superior Court, Washington County. The defendant assigns as error the court's instructions to the jury on the elements of causation and value. Since the instructions on value constitute obvious error we sustain the appeal.

On the evening of April 24, 1981, the defendant and an officer of the Lubec...

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