State v. Perra

These consolidated appeals present the issue whether RSA 620:9, rather than RSA 642:6 (1974 & Supp. 1983), governs the crime of escape from a house of correction. The trial courts ruled in the negative, on the ground that the former statute has been repealed by implication. We affirm.

*534In case No. 85-004, the defendant, Scott Perra, was discovered missing from his assigned work detail at the Sullivan County House of Correction on March 2,1984. Police officers arrested him twenty-four days later, at his mother’s home in Newport. The defendant was indicted for escape under RSA 642:6 (1974 & Supp.…