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State v. Shackford

Citations

  • 127 N.H. 695
  • 506 A.2d 315
  • 1986 N.H. LEXIS 223

How courts have described this case

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  • “whether the act was the offspring of insanity: if it was, a criminal intent did not produce it”
  • in a murder prosecution, evidence of the defendant’s similar attack on another victim, just minutes before the murder, “was probative of the defendant’s intent to stab uncooperative victims”
  • evidence of killing before eyewitnesses does not preclude finding of premeditation and deliberation
  • “[T]he test for criminal insanity is whether insanity negated criminal intent.”

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Judges: Johnson

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