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162 Conn. 614

State v. Pearson

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided December 22, 1971

Supreme Court of Connecticut · decided 1971-12-22

Decided 1971-12-22

Per Curiam.

¶1The defendant has appealed from the judgment rendered on a verdict by the jury finding him guilty of the crime of possessing a narcotic drug in violation of subsection (b) of § 19 of Public Act No. 753 of the 1969 Session of the General Assembly (General Statutes §19-481 [b]) and of selling a narcotic drug in violation of subsection (a) of § 18 of that act (§19-480 [a]). He has assigned error in the denial of his motion to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and evidence.

¶2The decisive issue is one of fact. An examination of the evidence submitted for the consideration of the jury discloses that while much of the evidence was circumstantial in nature the verdict reached by the jury was a result reasonably reached on a permissible view of the evidence.

¶3There is no error.

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