State v. Hall

The defendant appeals from a jury verdict in the Superior Court (Murphy, J.) finding him guilty of the class B felony of disobeying an officer with personal injury resulting to another, RSA 265:4, II. Challenging his conviction, the defendant claims that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the offense of simple assault, RSA 631:2-a, 1(b), which he contends is a lesser-included offense of disobeying an officer with personal injury resulting. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

On the evening of July 31, 1988, the defendant, Christopher B. Hall, his brother, Brian,…