STATE v. PINKHAM


411 A.2d 1021 (1980)

STATE of Maine v. Sidney PINKHAM.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Cox, Dist. Atty., Gary F. Thorne, Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally), Bangor, for plaintiff.

James S. Horton, Hall & DeSanctis, Julio DeSanctis (orally), Bangor, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS and GLASSMAN, JJ.


GODFREY, Justice.

Sidney Pinkham appeals from a conviction, after a jury trial, for criminal threatening, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 209 (Supp.1979). The only issue raised on appeal is whether the trial justice erred in determining that an eight-year-old child was competent to testify for the state. We deny the appeal.

Pinkham is the owner and operator of Pinkham's Trailer Court in Hudson, Maine. On January 20, 1979, two residents of the park were assisting a third...

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