Case Name: State of Connecticut v. Dennis E. Pearson
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1971-12-22
Citations: 162 Conn. 614
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Connecticut v. Dennis E. Pearson
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 162
Pages: 614–614

Head Matter:
State of Connecticut v. Dennis E. Pearson
House, C. J., Thim, Ryan, Shapiro and Loiselle, Js.
Argued December 10
decided December 22, 1971
Louis W. Johnson, with whom was Donald J. DiFrancesca, for the appellant (defendant).
Norman Sivin, special state’s attorney, with whom, on the brief, was Vincent J. Scamporino, state’s attorney, for the appellee (state).

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The 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.
The 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.
There is no error.