State v. Cote

Defendant and a codefendant named Jerome Harold Belanger were indicted for certain offenses in connection with the theft of some copper banding material from radio station WGIR in Manchester and the theft of an adding machine from Soule Associates in the same city. Defendant Cote was charged with theft of the copper banding and with receiving stolen property in the theft of the adding machine. Belanger was charged with receiving stolen property in the copper banding case and theft of the adding machine. Both defendants waived a jury trial and both were found guilty of the charges against them…