36 A. 14 | N.H. | 1895
Evidence tending to show that the plaintiff was known by the defendant to be a violent and dangerous person was competent. In arresting and detaining such a person, forcible measures might be proper and reasonable which in the case of a person of a different character would be unwarranted.
Whether the evidence offered of the defendant's character for violence and of his conduct in making a previous arrest had any legitimate bearing on the issue submitted to the jury, was a *382
question of remoteness determinable at the trial term. Its exclusion was not error. Cook v. New Durham,
The instruction requested was properly refused. Jewell v. Gilbert,
Exceptions overruled.
PARSONS, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
