Court Opinion

ID: 9624287
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:56:51.355684+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:42.595629
License: Public Domain

CONNOR, Justice,
concurring in part, dissenting in part.
I agree with the majority opinion except for the holding as to a portion of Jury Instruction No. 2.
I regard the instruction as innocuous. If the jury did consider extrinsic evidence, I do not think that it can be attributed to this instruction. The instruction merely tells them to evaluate the evidence in terms of their real life experience. In effect, it *1230means that they need not leave the sphere of real life, and their experience of living in it, at the door of the juryroom. When this language is read with the instruction as a whole, and with the other instructions, I perceive no error.