Shaw v. Stringer

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The ten arguments defendant makes in his brief — none of which refer to the assignments of error that they are based on as Rule 28(b)(5) of our appellate rules requires — raise only three questions for determination; as some of the arguments address the same basic issue as others, some concern formal matters of no consequence to the appeal, and others are based on grounds either not asserted in the trial or properly assigned as error. The three questions that defendant effectively raises and which we will address in sequence are: Did the court err to defendant’s prejudice in…