State v. Bourbeau

ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

In this case we are asked to determine whether an amendment of a criminal information following the closing of the State’s case was a violation of the defendants’ rights under the North Dakota Rules of Criminal Procedure or the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. A separate issue is whether defendants were denied their right to credit for time served when they were sentenced.

Mrs. Lillian Wold, who resides in Fargo, North Dakota, called the Fargo police about 8:00 a. m. on March 18, 1976, and reported her automobile missing. She owned a white 1963 Ford…