State v. Greenwood

Following trial by the Superior Court without jury (Johnson, J.), the defendant was convicted of aggravated assault on a 19-month-old boy. RSA 585:22 (Supp. 1972). The indictment charged that the defendant “did make an assault of an aggravated nature upon [the victim], an infant child ..., in that [defendant]... severely beat said child about the head and body, with his [defendant’s] hands and ƒists.” (Emphasis added.) The defendant’s exceptions were reserved and transferred by the presiding justice.

The mother of the child, with whom defendant was living when the assault was alleged to have…