State v. Lantigua

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

On trial for second degree murder defendant Jose P. Lantigua was jury-convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He appeals.

Defendant claims error on two evidentia-ry issues: Over hearsay objection the court allowed a police officer to testify he had been looking for and found and arrested a man who had been described in a police radio broadcast. And, in rebuttal the court allowed the state to use a witness who should have been but was not excluded from the courtroom.

The state’s substantive evidence is unchallenged. In sum it was that the one-armed defendant began an…