State v. Doran

Defendant appeals from his conviction under RSA 634:1 III (a) for the burning of Cote’s Restaurant in Claremont in the early morning of December 25, 1974. The defendant and his wife owned Cote’s Restaurant at the time of the fire. The issue here is the propriety of the admission of certain impeachment testimony in the course of trial before a jury. Defendant excepted to rulings of the Trial Court (Loughlin, J.) and all questions of law raised by defendant’s exceptions were reserved and transferred. For the reasons which follow we hold there was no error on the part of the trial court in…