Case Name: PEOPLE v. RINGLER
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1975-12-10
Citations: 66 Mich. App. 202
Docket Number: Docket No. 15592
Parties: PEOPLE v RINGLER
Judges: Before: Danhof, P. J., and Quinn and D. E. Holbrook, Jr., JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 66
Pages: 202–205

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v RINGLER
Opinion op the Court
1. Criminal Law — Instructions to Jury — Breaking and Entering —Aiding and Abetting.
Instructing the jury on aiding and abetting a breaking and entering was proper although the defendant was charged only with breaking and entering and not with aiding and abetting in that offense.
2. Criminal Law — Instructions to Jury — Defenses—Intoxication —Precedent.
An instruction to the jury contrary to Supreme Court case precedent on the defense of intoxication is not erroneous where the defendant was tried before the decision in the precedent case and the precedent case is not retroactively applicable.
3. Criminal Law — Instructions to Jury — Repetition—Defenses— Intoxication — Breaking and Entering — Aiding and Abetting.
A trial court is not required to repeat an instruction on the defense of intoxication when instructing the jury on an added offense of aiding and abetting where the court had previously instructed the jury on the defense of intoxication to the principal charge of breaking and entering.
Dissent by Danhof, J.
4. Criminal Law — Instructions to Jury — Defenses—Intoxication
—Later Case Precedent — Appeal and Error.
A court’s instruction on the defense of intoxication was reversibly erroneous where the instruction was contrary to Supreme Court precedent and the defendant’s conviction was not yet ñnal as of the decisional date of the precedent case; the defendant is entitled to the benefít of the precedent.
References for Points in Headnotes
[1, 3] 13 Am Jur 2d, Burglary § 69.
75 Am Jur 2d, Trial §§ 743, 744.
Appeal from St. Joseph, Chester J. Byrns, J.
Submitted December 4, 1975, at Grand Rapids.
(Docket No. 15592.)
Decided December 10, 1975.
Leave to appeal applied for.
Donald L. Ringler was convicted of breaking and entering an occupied dwelling with intent to commit larceny. Defendant appealed. The people’s motion to affirm granted. Defendant appealed to the Supreme Court. Remanded to the Court of Appeals for full consideration of the appeal, 394 Mich 775 (1975).
On remand, affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, James Noecker, Prosecuting Attorney (Prosecuting Attorneys Appellate Service, Edward R. Wilson, Director, and Lee W Atkinson, Special Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for the people.
John B. Phelps, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for defendant.
Before: Danhof, P. J., and Quinn and D. E. Holbrook, Jr., JJ.

Opinion:
Quinn, J.
Defendant appeals his jury conviction and subsequent sentence for breaking and entering an occupied dwelling with intent to commit larceny, MCLA 750.110; MSA 28.305. Originally, another panel of this Court disposed of the appeal by granting the people's motion to affirm. By order dated May 21, 1975, the Supreme Court remanded to this Court and stated, "for full consideration of the appeal, including, at a minimum, discussion of Issues I and II of defendant-appellant's application in this Court". (See 394 Mich 775.)
We have again reviewed the record and have again considered defendant's asserted errors. Ex cept for the mandate of the foregoing order from the Supreme Court, we would again affirm without further comment. There is no reversible error in this record and the case presents nothing of jurisprudential value.
1. Defendant's claim of error on the aiding and abetting instruction is controlled by People v Lamson, 44 Mich App 447; 205 NW2d 189 (1973).
2. While we have serious doubts that the intoxication instruction offends People v Crittle, 390 Mich 367; 212 NW2d 196 (1973), when considered with the entire instruction, Crittle is not applicable. Defendant was tried in 1972, see People v Engle, 61 Mich App 628; 233 NW2d 116 (1975).
3. Repetition of the intoxication instruction was not necessary nor was it reversible error not to repeat it, People v Scott, 55 Mich App 739; 223 NW2d 330 (1974).
We hope the foregoing three issues cover issues I and II that defendant presented to the Supreme Court, because remaining issues IV and V present no error and nothing to comment on.
Affirmed.
D. E. Holbrook, Jr., J., concurred.
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