State v. Greene

The defendant was found guilty of the crime of misdemeanor simple assault after a jury trial (O’Neil, J.) in Superior Court. The complaint upon which the defendant was tried alleged that she “did knowingly cause unprivileged physical contact with another, to-wit, Sergeant Donald Irvin of the Laconia Police Department, in that, [she] did punch the said Sergeant Donald Irvin in the face with her fist and in the torso with her fist and did further kick him about the body.” Her appeal is based on a claim of trial court error in instructing the jury that it need not unanimously find any one of the…