State v. Place

The defendant, Abbott M. Place, appeals his conviction in Superior Court (Hicks, J.) for simple assault. See RSA 631:2-a (1996). We affirm.

The jury could have found the following facts. On October 31, 2003, the defendant’s wife, Barbara Sherrard, brought the defendant home from work at about 5:30 p.m. Before Sherrard picked him up, the defendant had been drinking at work and continued to drink when they got home. The defendant “was pretty drunk,” and he sat at the kitchen table making comments. Sherrard responded to the defendant’s comments, and they were “bickering back and forth.”

As…