State v. Bales

OAKS, Justice:

The issues on these appeals from jury convictions of aggravated burglary are (1) whether there was reversible error in the instruction on the effect of the defendants’ flight, (2) whether the trial court erred in refusing a lesser included offense instruction on criminal trespass, and (3) whether the curative instruction erased the effect of an erroneous closing argument by the prosecutor. We affirm.

A witness saw the defendants enter the victim’s yard. One ascended her porch steps, and the other peered in a side window. A few minutes later, a police officer summoned by the…