Theft by Unauthorized Taking or Transfer
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Wagner v. State (2015)
Most recently applied in State v. Gentry (November 2017)
Source. 1971, 518:1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
I. A person commits theft if he obtains or exercises unauthorized control over the property of another with a purpose to deprive him thereof.
II. As used in this section and RSA 637:4 and 5, "obtain or exercise unauthorized control" includes but is not necessarily limited to conduct heretofore defined or known as common law larceny by trespassory taking, larceny by conversion, larceny by bailee, and embezzlement.
Official source: New Hampshire General Court. Reproduced from public-domain New Hampshire statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.