State v. Carnegie

A jury found the defendant guilty of forgery
in violation of 53-346 of the General Statutes
and of obtaining money by false pretenses in
violation of 53-360 of the General Statutes. The
principal issue on this appeal is whether an in-court
identification of the defendant was based on a
pretrial identification which was claimed to have
been made in a manner violative of due process of law. The defendant has assigned error in the finding
and seeks to have this court incorporate several
paragraphs of the draft finding into the finding. In
a jury case, a finding serves the limited purpose of
setting forth such of the facts as are needed in order
fairly to test the rulings of the court and the
correctness of the charge. Practice Book 635;
Morgillo v. Evergreen Cemetery Assn., 152 Conn. 169,
172, 205 A.2d 368. No corrections can be made to the
finding which would benefit the defendant in presenting
the questions of law which she wishes to have reviewed
by this court.