State v. Leaf

After a jury trial in Superior Court {Manias, J.), the defendant, Daniel Leaf, was convicted of second degree assault on an indictment charging him with having caused bodily injury in the form of multiple bruises to his stepson by striking his back, buttocks and thighs with a belt. The sole issue raised by the defendant in this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to convict. We affirm.

The victim was ten years old at the time of the offense. The indictment asserted a violation of RSA 631:2, IV (1986), which provides: “A person is guilty of a class B felony if he: [p]urposely or knowingly…