Court Opinion

ID: 9766864
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:00:59.458822+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:26.767921
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Murphy, J.
(dissenting). I concur in the dissent to the extent that the charge as printed in the defendant’s brief shows such flagrant error that the defendant’s right to a fair trial has been violated. I do not agree with my associates that the erroneous inclusion of the charge in the defendant’s appendix to her brief permits us to use it in affirming her conviction. The only part of the charge included by the *313court in its finding is that which is in the first quoted paragraph in the dissenting opinion. We are restricted to that in weighing its sufficiency. Nowhere in our rules do we provide for the charge to be printed in the appendices. The bald statement in Maltbie, Connecticut Appellate Procedure, § 316, page 403, that “if counsel discover that some relevant part of the record has not been printed, they can include a copy of it in the appendix to their brief,” relied upon by the majority to warrant their action, is supported neither by rule nor by authoritative case. It is but one man’s opinion and a poor crutch to lean upon when an individual’s constitutional rights are involved. If we expect the judges and attorneys to conform to the rules, we should at least set a good example and do so ourselves.