State v. Haycock

The defendant, Walter Haycock, was convicted after a superior court jury trial of accomplice to second degree assault. See RSA 631:2 (1996); RSA 626:8 (1996). On appeal, he challenges the Trial Court’s (Coffey, J.) order finding him competent to stand *6trial, and the Trial Court’s (Mokl, J.) order denying his request for a jury instruction on the use of force in defense of another. We reverse and remand.

I. Competency

We first address the defendant’s argument that the trial court erred in finding him competent to stand trial. At a pre-trial hearing on competency, the only witness to testify was…