State v. Barber

Defendant was charged by information with operation of a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent and with two counts of second-degree burglary and stealing. On appeal from his conviction on all charges, defendant asserts that the prosecuting attorney’s opening statement was fatally defective in failing to state facts to support the motor vehicle charge and the first burglary count; that the trial court erred in admitting certain hearsay testimony over objection to establish ownership of a television that had been taken in one of the burglaries; that it was error to instruct the jury on the…