State v. Long

Although no definite time for the filing of a bill of exceptions was fixed by the Presiding Justice or any request therefor made by the State, the strategy of defendant's counsel in delaying action until a stay of execution was imperative cannot be commended. It is unnecessary, however, to consider counsel's contention that their bill of exceptions was seasonably filed within the meaning of Rule 66 of the Superior Court (78 N.H. 688, 699).

The so-called confessions (two in number) were admitted in evidence "as tending to show" that the defendant "caused the death of Mark Neville Jensen." But…