State v. Thresher

The defendant appealed to this court from convictions of second-degree murder and robbery in the Hillsborough County Superior Court (Souter, J.). The defendant argues that errors in the indictment and errors throughout the trial, including errors in the admission of evidence and instructions to the jury, and errors in sentencing, warrant reversal. We disagree and affirm the trial court’s decision.

Late in the evening of October 25, 1979, the defendant, Edwin N. Thresher, another man, John Gillen, and the victim, Thomas Morris, were at a restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire. The police were…