STATE v. CANTARA

No. 82-346.

123 N.H. 737 (1983)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. GILBERT CANTARA

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

August 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Joanne Green, assistant appellate defender, of Concord, by brief for the defendant.


BOIS, J.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether the superior court abused its discretion in allowing the State to introduce evidence of the defendant's prior conviction in order to establish his motive to commit the offense of criminal threatening. See RSA 631:4. We find no error and affirm.

Between the summer of 1980 and the summer of 1981, the victim, Georgette Boudreau, received numerous harassing telephone calls from the defendant, Gilbert Cantara...

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