State v. Stanley

MARTIN, Justice.

Attorneys for the defendant have raised seventeen issues on appeal, based on twenty-two assignments of error. We have examined the entire record on appeal. For reasons which follow, we find that this defendant received a fair trial, free of prejudicial error.

In this opinion, assignments of error will be grouped together where clarity dictates; further facts in the case will be related as relevant issues are considered.

Defendant’s first two assignments of error concern the following decision and comments by Judge Thornburg immediately after the jury had been impaneled, just…