State v. Sanders

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant was charged and convicted of operating a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner. His appeal raises two points charging trial court error in failing to declare a mistrial, first, after “the prosecutor and the state’s witnesses made repeated references” to defendant’s stealing an automobile — a crime different from that which he was charged. The second professed error is based on the prosecutor’s interrogation of defendant upon cross-examination as to whether a co-defendant had pleaded guilty to the charge. There is no merit to either point raised, and we affirm.

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