State v. Hoyt

This is an appeal from a jury verdict of guilty upon a trial under an indictment charging the de fendant, having been convicted of a felony, with possession of a pistol in violation of RSA 159:3. The defendant claims that the indictment charges two separate and distinct offenses, is duplicitous and “bad for uncertainty.” State v. Gary, 36 N.H. 359, 361-62 (1858); State v. Mealey, 100 N.H. 228, 122 A.2d 921 (1956).

We do not believe that the record sustains his position. The indictment, describing a felony, states that the defendant did “feloniously have in his possession one Ruger 22 cal.…