STATE v. DUFIELD

No. 87-176.

131 N.H. 35 (1988)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. THOMAS V. DUFIELD

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

October 31, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Merrill, attorney general (Michael D. Ramsdell, attorney, on the brief and orally), for the State.

James E. Duggan, appellate defender, of Concord, by brief and orally, for the defendant.


SOUTER, J.

In appealing his conviction for reckless second degree murder, RSA 630:1-b, I(b), the defendant submits that the Superior Court (DiClerico, J.) erred in refusing to recognize a defense of voluntary intoxication rendering the defendant unable to experience a mental state of extreme indifference to the value of human life at the time charged in the indictment. We affirm.

The victim in this case was the defendant's sister, who went to his Claremont...

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