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- Title: State v. Mahmood
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 03, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The defendant shot and killed a man
and was convicted, by a jury, of murder in the
second degree. He has appealed from the judgment
rendered on the verdict, and the only issue pursued
on the appeal is a ruling on evidence. The defendant
claims that the court erroneously excluded inquiry
concerning a conversation which had taken place
between the defendant and two of the state's
witnesses some time before the date of the shooting
from which the defendant wished to show that the
two witnesses were biased against him. None of the circumstances concerning the shooting
appear in the finding, which is not attacked.
Although they are not pertinent to a decision of the
question before us, we note that recitals in the
appendices to the briefs make it appear that the
shooting was the culmination of an altercation and
scuffle at a "social club" during which the deceased
was armed with a knife and the defendant was
armed with a revolver and which arose because the
deceased refused to play cards with the defendant.
Ten or eleven men were in the club when the fracas
started, but four of them left before the shooting.
Two of the persons who remained and who witnessed
the shooting were Savvas Sidiropoulos and Anthony
DelVecchio.