STATE v. ELLIOTT

No. 89-479.

133 N.H. 759 (1990)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. ELMER ELLIOTT.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Arnold, attorney general (David S. Peck, senior assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State.

Stephen T. Jeffco P.A., of Portsmouth (Stephen T. Jeffco on the brief and orally), for the defendant.


JOHNSON, J.

The defendant, Elmer Elliott, was convicted of manslaughter after a jury trial in Superior Court (Nadeau, J.) and was sentenced to ten to twenty years of imprisonment. Elliott appeals the conviction, arguing that the court (1) impermissibly amended the grand jury's indictment in its jury instructions; (2) erroneously defined causation in its instruction to the jury; (3) erroneously instructed the jury on the issue of intervening cause; and (4) erroneously...

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