State v. Williams

The issue to be decided by this case is whether the transcripts of a defendant’s testimony in a probable cause hearing in district court and of his testimony'on a motion to set bail in superior court are admissible in a subsequent trial of the defendant for first degree murder. RSA 630:1-a (Homicide, First Degree Murder). Prior to the trial the State informed the defendant and the superior court that it intended to offer the two transcripts as evidence of the defendant’s guilt. Cann, J., reserved and transferred without ruling the question of the admissibility of the transcripts as part of…