STATE v. TANGALIN

No. 8610.

657 P.2d 1025 (1983)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen R. TANGALIN, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

January 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Tanigawa, Deputy Public Defender, Honolulu, and law student Mariano V. Hernando, on the brief, for defendant-appellant.

Lorna A. Nishimitsu, Deputy Pros. Atty., Lihui, on the brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUM, Acting C.J., NAKAMURA, PADGETT and HAYASHI, JJ., and Retired Justice MENOR, Assigned by Reason of Vacancy.


PADGETT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of theft in the third degree. The sole point on appeal, although stated in three different ways, is a claim that the court committed error by finding the complaining witness' testimony more credible than that of the appellant since the prosecutor and appellant's attorney had stipulated that appellant was credible. We affirm.

To begin with, the stipulation was not that appellant was more credible than the...

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