State v. Lainey

Defendant appeals from his conviction under RSA 635:1 for the burglary of Roland’s Variety Store in Nashua in the early morning of December 12, 1975. The issues here are the propriety of the severance of the charge of burglary from the charge of committing a crime when armed with a revolver, RSA 159:2, and certain evidentiary rulings in the course of trial before a jury. All questions of law raised by defendant’s exceptions were reserved and transferred by the Trial Court (Goode, J.).

Defendant argues first that the trial court erred in granting the state’s motion to sever the two indictments…