Linse v. State

The sole question raised on appeal is whether the trial court erred by denying the defendant’s request for a special instruction cautioning the jury to subject the testimony of the state’s principal witness to careful scrutiny because he had been granted immunity to testify. The proffered instruction was modeled on the standard instruction for accomplice testimony and warned that it is ordinarily unsafe to convict or base a verdict on the uncorroborated testimony of a witness granted immunity. We conclude that the failure to give that instruction was not error and that the usual admonition to…