State v. Dickson

The issues in these two driving-while-intoxicated cases are whether our two-tier system requiring defendants to be tried in the district court without jury subject to appeal with a right to trial de novo by jury in the superior court violates defendants’ constitutional rights and whether the district court had discretion at defendants’ request to transfer before trial cases begun in the district court to the superior court for trial by jury in the first instance.

Each defendant was charged with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. RSA 262-A:62 (Supp. 1975).…