State v. Scarlett

This case presents five issues that were preserved for our review by exceptions taken during a trial at which the defendant was convicted of aggravated felonious sexual assault. RSA 632-A:2 (Supp. 1977). The defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the propriety of the Trial Court’s (Goode, J.) pretrial competency hearing for juvenile witnesses, the propriety of certain interstitial jury instructions, the admission of alleged hearsay statements, and finally, the judge’s denial of the defendant’s motion for a mistrial subsequent to the display of allegedly prejudicial and…