Court Opinion

ID: 9655890
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:24:32.41507+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:22.959449
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White, C! J.,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the court herein. The State ■ *159made a motion in the trial court for a consolidation of the cases which were thereafter tried together. The defendant then had counsel of his own choosing who continued to act thereafter throughout the trial in district court and on appeal here. No objection was made to the consolidation at that time and no motion for severance or issue with respect thereto was made in the trial court thereafter. Defendant made no objection to the offer of the confession in evidence in the trial court. Defendant’s; brief in this court assigns no error and presents no argument with respect to the consolidation. No error is assigned to the admission of the confession except as relates to the instructions to the jury with respect thereto which is discussed in the court’s opinion. Under such circumstances the defendant should not be permitted to assert his own failure as a basis for a new trial. A defendant will not be permitted to sit by with indifference to any rights he may assert and take his chances on a favorable verdict and when it is adverse to raise such claimed errors to obtain a second chance at a verdict more favorable to him.
A synopsis of the evidence is contained in the opinion of the court. I think it was sufficient to submit the issue of the defendant’s guilt to the jury.