Opinion ID: 1725936
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Heading: Was there a sufficient gap in chain of custody of billfold to preclude its admission into evidence?

Text: The police found Carole's billfold on the top of the sofa in the mobile home. It contained credit cards and money. The State believed it refuted a robbery theory. The billfold was offered and received into evidence over defendant's objection that the necessary foundation was lacking. He asserted there had been approximately ten minutes during the afternoon of March 30, 1977, when the mobile home was not secured and other persons had access to it. The record discloses, however, that officer Dawson took the billfold into his possession on the morning of March 30, before the ten-minute gap occurred. Even assuming a brief interruption in the chain of custody would make evidence inadmissible, we find no merit in this assignment of error. The billfold was properly admitted upon adequate foundation.