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STATE v. PERRA

No. 84-004. No. 85-197.

127 N.H. 533 (1985)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. SCOTT PERRA. THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. STUART V. CURRIER.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 31, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Merrill, attorney general (William H. Lyons, attorney, on the brief), by brief for the State.

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

BATCHELDER, J.

These consolidated appeals present the issue whether RSA 620:9, rather than RSA 642:6 (1974 & Supp. 1983), governs the crime of escape from a house of correction. The trial courts ruled in the negative, on the ground that the former statute has been repealed by implication. We affirm.

In case No. 85-004, the defendant, Scott Perra, was discovered missing from his assigned work detail at the Sullivan...

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