State v. Van Beek

RENTTO, Associate Judge. *

On May 2, 1972 a jury found defendant guilty of grand larceny involving the theft of livestock from a Lincoln County farm. He appeals from the judgment entered on this verdict which sentenced him to imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

His appeal as filed was bottomed on eight assignments of error. In the appellate process he abandoned seven of these. The remaining one makes this complaint:

“The Court erred to the prejudice of the Defendant in overruling the Defendant’s Motion for Mistrial upon the grounds that the State’s Attorney asked, in the presence of the…