Harris v. State

In the form of the verdict submitted to the jury in this case, provision for the jury to find the value of the property falsely obtained was inadvertently omitted. The majority found that this omission violated the mandate in § 7-11-502, W.S.1977,1 and was, therefore, error. I have no real disagreement with this determination in view of prior Wyoming cases. In my opinion, however, the error, if any, is not plain error, nor is it prejudicial. This error is at most harmless and should be disregarded.

Section 7-11-502, W.S.1977, has caused this Court considerable trouble in its 112-year history.…