Court Opinion

ID: 9540422
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:15:48.835269+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:18.900160
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.  The defendant complains in motion for rehearing that we did not pass upon his assignment of error wherein he urges that the lower court erred in giving the jury an oral instruction to which he was afforded no opportunity to object. We have examined the record and it discloses that no objection was made to the action of the court in giving the oral instruction to the jury. It was incumbent upon him to object to the oral instruction at the time it was delivered to the jury. Had he done so, doubtless the court would have reduced it to writing, thereby giving defendant an opportunity to object formally to any error contained in it. He could not remain silent and gamble on the verdict below, then raise the question in this court for the first time. State v. Johnson, 21 N.M. 432, 155 P.721. The motion will be denied, and it is so ordered. BRICE, C. J., and SADLER, McGHEE and COMPTON, JJ., concur.