State v. Aldrich

The defendant, Wayne Aldrich, appeals his conviction in Superior Court (Gann, J.) for escape from official custody, RSA 642:6. The issues presented for our review are whether the State may properly charge the defendant with “knowingly” escaping from official custody, when the escape statute itself (RSA 642:6) *46does not prescribe a culpable mental state, and whether the admission of certain inadmissible hearsay evidence was harmless error. For the reasons which follow, we affirm the defendant’s conviction.

In January 1980, the defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms of two-and-one-half to…