State v. Nocella

The defendant, Robert B. Nocella, Sr., was indicted by the Rockingham County Grand Jury on June 1, 1982, on two counts alleging him to be a felon in possession of firearms contrary to RSA 159:3. Under this charge, the State must prove that the defendant was in possession of one of the statutorily proscribed *164firearms and, at the time of such possession, had been convicted in this or any other State of a felony.

The alleged felony conviction relied upon by the State in this case is a conviction of the defendant in the Middlesex County Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on…