STATE v. DUKE

No. 4505.

100 N.H. 292 (1956)

STATE v. HENRY C. DUKE.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided July 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General, Elmer T. Bourque, Assistant Attorney General, and Conrad Danais, county solicitor (Mr. Bourque orally), for the State.

James B. Sullivan; Upton, Sanders & Upton and Wesley E. Whitney (Mr. Whitney orally), for the defendant.


BLANDIN, J.

The only question transferred is whether the Court erred in permitting the county solicitor to cross-examine the defendant, who testified voluntarily, concerning his prior criminal offenses for the sole purpose of attacking his credibility. A long and unbroken line of decisions in this state holds that such inquiries may be permitted within the discretion of the Trial Court. In Constantine v. Grenier, 81 N.H. 550, a case of trespass, counsel...

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