STATE v. PELILLO

No. 7613.

117 N.H. 674 (1977)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. PATRICK PELILLO.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

August 29, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Souter, attorney general and Edward M. Damon, assistant attorney general (Mr. Damon orally), for the state.

Leonard J. Merski, by brief and orally, for the defendant.


GRIMES, J.

The issues in this case are whether an indictment for the sale of a controlled drug must specify the capacity in which defendant is claimed to have acted and whether the failure of the trial judge to give the same jury instruction as in a previous case, when defendant was relying thereon, is cause for a new trial.

The indictment on which defendant was put to trial read in part that he "did knowingly sell a quantity of a controlled drug ... without...

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