Finley v. State

-OPINION-

CORNISH, Presiding Judge:

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Grady County, Oklahoma, Case No. CRF-79-1, for the offense of Burglary of Automobile and was sentenced to two (2) years’ imprisonment.

I

First complained of on appeal is the trial court’s failure to sustain the appellant’s motion in limine and direct the district attorney not to elicit certain testimony from witnesses. This related to the appellant’s firing a pistol into the air immediately after he had abandoned the commission of the crime charged.

In Shetsky v. State, Okl.Cr., 290 P.2d 149 (1955), where…