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- Title: State v. Reid
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 04, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
The indictment returned by the grand jury
charged the defendant with the first degree
murder of Florine McCluney "in attempting to
perpetrate a robbery." The claims of proof
material to the consideration of the defendant's
assignments of error will be summarized. Mrs.
McCluney was a neighbor who had known the
defendant from infancy. She was an especial
friend of his mother and had always been friendly
with him. She owned a Buick car which she kept
in a parking lot near her home in Hartford. At
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
[146 Conn. 229]
of January 15, 1957, the defendant, who was
unemployed, left his house, with a hammer in his
belt, to go out on the street. About 9 o'clock in
the evening, while in a restaurant, he saw Mrs.
McCluney, who he thought had some money, walking
down the street. Thereupon he left the restaurant,
crossed the street, cut through an alley and went
to the lot where she parked her car. He hid there.
When she passed, he felled her with a blow on the
head from the hammer. When she moaned, he struck
her some more. After breaking a window on the
driver's side of her car, he placed her in the
car, first removing her fur coat so that he could
more easily carry her. Death directly resulted
from the blows, which caused a depressed,
comminuted fracture of the skull. The body of
Mrs. McCluney was found the next morning, frozen
solid, in her car. More than $2000 was concealed
under her clothing, but the defendant had not
found it. At about 11 o'clock the night she was
killed, a paper bag with her pocketbook in it
was discovered on a sidewalk nearby.