State v. Partain

KISTLER, S. J.

*800Defendant appeals from a second-degree theft conviction for stealing merchandise from a Walmart store. On appeal, he assigns error to the trial court's ruling preventing him from vouching for his own testimony. The state concedes that the trial court erred in excluding that testimony, and the question on appeal reduces to whether the error was harmless. For the reasons explained below, we conclude that it was. We accordingly affirm the trial court's judgment.

Three witnesses testified at trial: a Walmart employee who reviewed surveillance videos taken while defendant was in the…