Doe v. State

On September 27, 1971, the defendant, then eighteen years old and now referred to by agreement as John Doe, pleaded guilty in the Keene District Court, “to willful concealment of a ping-pong ball of the value of seventy-nine cents” in violation of RSA 582:15 and was fined $25 with $10 of the fine suspended. On January 28, 1974, the defendant requested the court to annul and vacate the record of conviction and sentence under the provisions of RSA 651:5 (Supp. 1973) part of the new criminal code, effective November 1, 1973. The county attorney and the State probation officer both assented to…