State v. Wellman

The defendant, Bruce Wellman, was convicted in separate trials of accomplice to burglary, RSA 628:8, 111(a) and RSA 635:1, and receiving stolen property, RSA 637:7,1. Since these consolidated appeals arise out of the same set of factual circumstances, we first describe their substantive and procedural histories in the form of a single narrative, and then proceed to deal separately with the arguments presented by the defendant in each appeal, except for one issue common to both. We affirm the first conviction and reverse the second.

The defendant was initially convicted of being an accomplice…