State v. Sadvari

The defendant appeals from a jury verdict finding him guilty of first-degree murder, RSA 630:1-a, and sane, RSA 628:2. He claims that the evidence of premeditation and deliberation was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict, and that the Trial Court (Johnson, J.) gave an erroneous instruction on insanity. We affirm the defendant’s conviction.

Evidence at trial tended to establish the following facts: In the summer of 1980, the defendant, Stephen Sadvari, and his girlfriend, Cathy Clark, moved from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire. Sadvari obtained a job at the South Wentworth farm of Robert…