175 N.W.2d 310 | Mich. Ct. App. | 1970
PEOPLE
v.
RUDDER
Michigan Court of Appeals.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, *202 Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Angelo A. Pentolino, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Blinstrub, O'Neill and Shannon (Michael R. Corman, of counsel), for defendant on appeal.
Before: DANHOF, P.J., and FITZGERALD and McGREGOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Defendant was convicted by a jury on two counts. Count I was breaking and entering an occupied dwelling with intent to commit larceny, MCLA § 750.110 (Stat Ann 1969 Cum Supp § 28.305), for which he was sentenced to a term of 2-1/2 to 15 years in prison. Count II was felonious assault, CL 1948, § 750.82 (Stat Ann 1969 Rev § 28.277), for which he was sentenced to a term of 2-1/2 to 4 years in prison. The sentences are to run concurrently.
On appeal defendant alleges (1) that the verdict on Count I was against the weight of the evidence; (2) that the prosecutor's statement in final argument that fingerprints could not be taken from a knife's rough surface was prejudicial in that no testimony to support this statement appeared in the record; (3) that the prosecutor's reference in final argument to defendant's silence at the time of his arrest about his alibi witnesses thwarted defendant's constitutional right to remain silent; (4) and that testimony regarding bloodstains, buttons, and a radio was inadmissible because it was the result of an illegal arrest, search and seizure.
Examination of the record reveals that during the trial no objection was made to the prosecutor's final argument, nor was objection made to the admission of the buttons or radio. Indeed, the radio was defendant's own exhibit number one, and defense *203 counsel specifically stated he had no objection to the admission of the buttons. Defendant did object to testimony that certain stains were blood, and the trial court sustained this objection. Defendant is untimely in raising issues (2), (3), and (4), and we so hold. People v. David Smith (1969), 16 Mich. App. 198, Laughlin v. United States (CA 9, 1969), 411 F2d 1224, People v. Childers (1969) 20 Mich. App. 639.
Defendant's contention that the verdict on Count I was against the weight of the evidence is without merit. There was an abundance of eyewitness testimony which together with the testimony of defendant's several alibi witnesses clearly presented a question for the jury.
Affirmed.