State v. St. John

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• holding that the trial court did not err by refusing to instruct the jury on the definition of “firearm” set forth in Beaudette because the defendant did not dispute that the charged weapon was a “firearm” under RSA 159:3
• instructions reviewed in their entirety not by looking at single instruction in isolation
• when defendant was charged with possessing a .357 Dan Wesson handgun and witnesses referred to the handgun as a “firearm” at trial, there was no need for trial court to instruct jury that a firearm is “a weapon from which shot is discharged by gunpowder” (quotation omitted)
• when defendant was charged with possessing a .357 Dan Wesson handgun and witnesses referred to the handgun as a “firearm” at trial, there was no need for trial court to instruct jury that a firearm is “a weapon from which shot is discharged by gunpowder” (quotation omitted)

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Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Great Lakes Aircraft Co. v. City of Claremont
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-03-09· cited 94×
• State v. Newcomb
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-08-01· cited 21×
• State v. Dedrick
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-05-01· cited 18×
• State v. Wood
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1989-08-23· cited 7×
• State of New Hampshire v. John A. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-01-28· cited 5×
• State v. McLellan
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1994-11-07· cited 4×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-08-27· cited 3×
• State of New Hampshire v. Justin Parr
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2022-03-17
• Pep Boys v. Aranosian
  D. New Hampshire· 1996-03-26
• Keyser v. Met. Life Ins. C o .
  D. New Hampshire· 1996-05-28
• Buskey v. Kawasaki
  D. New Hampshire· 1994-06-01
• Mitsubishi Mot. v. Portsmouth Imp.
  D. New Hampshire· 1996-05-03

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Sands
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1983-08-29· cited 70×
• State v. Bird
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1982-01-15· cited 32×
• State v. Fennelly
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1983-06-09· cited 27×
• State v. Shannon
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1984-11-09· cited 26×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1981-06-12· cited 25×
• State v. Beaudette
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1984-02-29· cited 11×