State v. Holler

The defendant, Edgar Holler, was indicted for the second-degree murder of his wife. Following a bifurcated jury trial in Superior Court (Wyman, J.), he was found to have been sane and guilty of manslaughter. Novosel v. Helgemoe, 118 N.H. 115, 125, 384 A.2d 124, 130 (1978). He appeals his conviction on the following grounds: (1) that the gun used in the killing was the fruit of an illegal interrogation and search, and therefore it was improperly admitted into evidence at trial; (2) that the trial court erred in failing to conduct a separate voir dire of the jurors prior to the sanity phase of…