State v. Reece

Defendant appeals from his conviction after jury trial for burglary. He assigns as error the following:

1) admitting oral testimony as to the contents of a letter allegedly written by defendant to a state’s witness; and

2) imposing a sentence which directed that restitution be paid “on a schedule to be determined by defendant’s parole officer.”

The essential facts material to an understanding of the issues are as follows:

The case involved the entry of a private home and the theft of a quantity of valuable coins. The evidence offered by the state was largely circumstantial. One state’s witness,…