In Re Adoption of Searle

EAGLES, Judge.

Respondent’s first two assignments of error raise the single issue of whether it was error for the court to instruct the jury that, for purposes of determining the period of respondent’s alleged abandonment of his child, the adoption proceeding was instituted on 2 August 1983. We hold that the action was not instituted on 2 August 1983 and that the court’s instruction to the jury was erroneous.

We note first that respondent failed to note anywhere in the record his exceptions to the trial court’s jury instructions. Further, no exceptions are listed under the relevant assignments…