STATE v. DICKSON

No. 7269. No. 7308.

116 N.H. 175 (1976)

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. ROBERT W. DICKSON. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. GEORGE A. ROGERS.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 31, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Souter, attorney general, and Robert V. Johnson II, assistant attorney general (Mr. Johnson orally), for the State.

Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green and James E. Higgins, W. Michael Dunn and E. Tupper Kinder (Mr. Kinder orally) for the defendant.


GRIMES, J.

The issues in these two driving-while-intoxicated cases are whether our two-tier system requiring defendants to be tried in the district court without jury subject to appeal with a right to trial de novo by jury in the superior court violates defendants' constitutional rights and whether the district court had discretion at defendants' request to transfer before trial cases begun in the district court to the superior court for trial by jury in the first...

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