PRICE v. STATE

No. 5083.

647 P.2d 611 (1982)

Vernon PRICE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

July 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Hagey, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Mark I. Wood, Asst. Dist. Atty., Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BRYNER, C.J., SINGLETON, J., and BUCKALEW, Superior Court Judge.


OPINION

SINGLETON, Judge.

Vernon Price contends that his conviction of two counts of burglary should be reversed because of the trial court's failure to give a mandatory instruction relating to accomplice testimony. We find that the court's failure to give the instruction rendered Price's trial fundamentally unfair and constitutes a miscarriage of justice, and thus, we reverse the conviction and remand the case for further proceedings.

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