State v. Green

The defendants appealed convictions in the Alton municipal court for the alleged violation of RSA 587:5. This statute makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year and a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, to assault an officer in the service of any lawful process or order in any civil case or criminal misdemeanor. When the appeals were scheduled to be tried in the Superior Court, the county attorney entered a nolle prosequi in each case and filed an information against each defendant charging him with an assault on a deputy sheriff of Belknap county…