Court Opinion

ID: 7957352
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:19:53.296932+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:18.872898
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
Defendant was convicted by a jury of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder, MCLA § 750.84 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.279). Prom a denial of his motion for a new trial, this appeal followed.
The incident out of which this case arose involved a shooting of two persons by defendant. During the course of trial, it was revealed that defendant had previously been involved in shootings not resulting in an arrest or conviction. Defendant now assigns such revelations as reversible error. We recognize that as a general rule it is improper during trial to refer to similar prior acts, People v. Matthews (1969), 17 Mich App 48. However, the instant record reveals that defendant’s own counsel brought the prior similar acts into the trial and at no time objected to their admission during trial. With this fact in mind, we hold that the prosecutor’s further reference to them and the trial court’s failure to instruct on the limited purpose for which such evidence is admissible may not now be assigned as error. People v. Kelly (1970), 26 Mich App 148.
Defendant also contends that the trial judge improperly instructed the jury on the law of self-defense. When read as a whole, the instructions, as given, were a correct statement of the law. People v. Floyd (1968), 15 Mich App 284.
Affirmed.