STATE v. BIRD

No. 80-497.

122 N.H. 10 (1982)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. NEIL D. BIRD.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

January 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory H. Smith, attorney general (Donald J. Perrault, attorney, on the brief and orally), for the State.

Leonard, Prolman & Leonard, of Nashua (Richard W. Leonard and Thomas J. Leonard, III, on the brief, and Thomas J. Leonard, III, orally), for the defendant.


BOIS, J.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter (RSA 630:2 (Supp. 1979)). The defendant claims that the Trial Judge (Mullavey, J.) gave defective instructions to the jury and that the evidence did not support the jury's verdict. We affirm the conviction.

From June 1978 to May 1980, the defendant lived with his girlfriend, Sandy Rassier, in his parents' cottage in Wilton, New Hampshire. During this period,...

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