State v. Parrish

Defendant Parrish contends that the Talalah and Mansfield houses had been vacated and left open and the items of personal property located in them abandoned. He requested numerous special instructions with respect to abandoned property and assigns as error the court’s refusal to give them. We have reviewed the evidence and the requested instructions. There is no merit in defendant’s position. The Court of Appeals correctly held that there was no evidence which would justify or require instructions with respect to abandoned property.

Defendant filed a supplemental brief in this Court asserting,…