Legal Opinion
Donophan v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided February 19, 1981Published
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Justice:
By order dated December 11, 1980, this case was remanded to the Superior Court so that the Trial Judge might enter upon the record his ruling on the offer in evidence by the State of court records showing that defendant “had been convicted of Burglary in the Second Degree.” Thereafter, the Superior Court filed an opinion stating that
*842“[t]his matter has been remanded to this Court by the Supreme Court for the purpose, as I understand it, of determining what weight was given, at trial, to the offer by the State that the defendant had been previously sentenced for a felony.
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- State v. Superior CourtSupreme Court of Delaware · 1958
- Lis v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1974
- Frabizzio v. StateSuperior Court of Delaware · 1948