State v. Fetterly

LANSING, Judge.

In this case, Dawn R. Fetterly was found guilty by a jury of the crime of wilful concealment. We are asked to decide whether the magistrate erred in refusing to give a requested jury instruction on the statutory definition of negligence. We conclude that the requested instruction was unnecessary and inappropriate, and we therefore affirm.

FACTS

Dawn R. Fetterly (Fetterly) was shopping with her husband, her two young sons, and her mother-in-law, Barbara Parcell (Parcell), at a Shopko store. Parcell was in a wheelchair. After entering the store Fetterly and Parcell temporarily…