People v. Valenzuela

Opinion

FRANSON, J.

Appellant was convicted following trial by jury of burglary in the first degree and four counts of robbery in the first degree, The sole contention on appeal is that the trial court prejudicially erred in failing to instruct the jury about the credibility of witnesses at the close of argument even though it had instructed the jury on this subject three days earlier, following the opening statements. For the reasons to be explained we hold that while the trial court did not prejudicially err in failing to reinstruct the juiy, it would have been the better practice to have…