State v. Kyseth

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the propriety of admission into evidence of testimony of a verbal exchange between a peace officer and defendant Melvin Eugene Kyseth.

Corporal David P. Struckman, investigating a motor vehicle accident, found defendant lying on the street near the scene. An ambulance transported defendant to a hospital.

The officer then received information the vehicle involved in the accident had been stolen. He went to the hospital, where he had previously interviewed individuals in other investigations. He found defendant in the emergency room with an attending…