Opinion ID: 2338879
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 17

Heading: Motion to Set Aside Verdict

Text: Four of the five grounds upon which the defendant claims error in the trial court's denial of his motion to set aside the verdict can be disposed of by reference to our discussion of those issues in Parts I, III, VIII and XTTT of this opinion. The defendant's remaining claim is that the verdict should have been set aside due to the failure of the state to arraign him and thus provide the defendant with the opportunity to exercise his rights to plead guilty or elect to be tried by the court. Whatever merit such a claim may have in the abstract is irrelevant in the present case, however, since the record fails to indicate, and the defendant does not assert, that he ever sought to plead guilty or expressed a desire to waive his right to a trial by jury any time prior to the rendition of the jury verdict in this case. There is no error.