Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 10/19/1978

State v. Millett

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392 A.2d 521
1978 Me. LEXIS 972

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recognizing that lay testimony would suffice in deciding whether the object involved was a \real gun\
holding that testimony of witnesses who observed handgun projecting from defendant's belt was sufficient to prove operability
noting that penal statute strict construction principle subordinate to reasonable and sensible interpretation
under pre-Code law, permissible inference of operability of “real revolver” in absence of evidence of inoperability
jury warranted to find, on the basis of lay testimony describing instrument projecting from defendant's belt, that weapon was a real gun and it was not necessary for state to prove operability

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Judges: Pomeroy, Wernick, Archibald, Delahanty, Godfrey, Dufresne

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