BARROW, Judge.
In this criminal appeal we hold that a prosecutor's description, during opening statement, of evidence he is later unable to produce does not require declaration of a mistrial if he acted in good faith, and there is no prejudice to the defendant.
During the defendant's trial for breaking and entering and grand larceny, the Commonwealth's attorney in his opening statement told the jury that the defendant had admitted to the police that he was...
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