Opinion ID: 1948183
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: sanity charge

Text: The defendant also objects to the charge on the issue of sanity, claiming that it raised an impermissible presumption as to an element of the crime. The defendant concedes that he did not raise the issue of sanity at trial, and also acknowledged in his motion for acquittal of January 28, 1980, that [t]he issue of insanity was never raised by the defense or by the evidence. Further, the defendant filed no request to charge on the issue of sanity and took no exception at trial. We therefore refuse to consider this claim, raised for the first time on appeal. State v. Kurvin, 186 Conn. 555, 563-64, 442 A.2d 1327 (1982); State v. Holmquist, 173 Conn. 140, 151, 376 A.2d 1111, cert. denied, 434 U.S. 906, 98 S. Ct. 306, 54 L. Ed. 2d 193 (1977); State v. Green, 172 Conn. 22, 28-29, 372 A.2d 133 (1976).