Hawkins v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of theft by deception, theft by receiving stolen property, and removal and falsification of vehicle identification numbers with the intent to convert the vehicles. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered on the jury’s verdicts.

1. Appellant enumerates a portion of the trial court’s pre-evidentiary statement to the jury as erroneous.

Error, if any, in that portion of the trial court’s pre-evidentiary statement under consideration was rendered harmless by the trial court’s subsequent giving of a correct…