Court Opinion

ID: 9757409
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 22:39:46.681526+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:39.242522
License: Public Domain

Griffith, J.,
concurring: I concur in the result reached by the majority on the question transferred but I would not rule on the validity of the arrest.
It does not appear that the defendant is now in custody or that determination of the validity of his arrest is germane to the trial of the charge against him. While we have suggested that interlocutory appeals in criminal cases “are not useful and should not be encouraged” (Jewett v. Siegmund, 110 N.H. 203, 206, 263 A.2d *665678, 680 (1970)), here we are asked to give advice on a matter now moot and irrelevant to the trial of the case.
The motion to quash the arrest in this case was made after the defendant was before the court to answer the complaint against him. “The universal rule appears to be that the manner in which a defendant is brought before a court is no bar to the court’s jurisdiction to try the case nor may it successf ully be set up as a bar to a conviction.” (Citations omitted.) State v. Keating, 108 N.H. 402, 403, 236 A.2d 684 (1967).