State v. Kendall

561 P.2d 935, 90 N.M. 236
CourtNew Mexico Court of Appeals
DecidedJanuary 4, 1977
Docket2608
StatusPublished
Cited by40 cases

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Bluebook
State v. Kendall, 561 P.2d 935, 90 N.M. 236 (N.M. Ct. App. 1977).

Opinion

OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Convicted of fourteen felonies and one misdemeanor, defendant appeals. Statutory references are to N.M.S.A.1953 (2d Repl. Yol. 6 and the 1975 Supp.) unless otherwise noted. The fifteen crimes were: (1) four kidnappings which were second degree crimes (Counts I, II, XII and XIII), § 40A-4-1, supra; (2) three armed robberies which were second degree crimes (Counts III, IV and XV), § 40A-16-2, supra; (3) two aggravated batteries which were third degree crimes (Counts V and VI), § 40A-3-5, supra; (4) two aggravated assaults which were fourth degree crimes (Counts VII and XI), § 4ÓA-3-2, supra; (5) two aggravated burglaries which were second degree crimes (Counts VIII and IX), § 40A-16-4, supra; (6) one criminal sexual penetration, a second degree crime (Count X), § 40A-9-21(B), supra; and (7) one attempt to unlawfully take a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor (Count XIV), § 40A-28-1, supra, § 64-9-4, N.M.S.A.1953 (2d Repl.Vol. 9, pt. 2, Supp. 1975) and § 64-10-8, N.M.S.A.1953 (2d Repl.Vol. 9, pt. 2).

The issues involve: (1) self-incrimination; (2) contentions not supported by the record; (3)' instruction on intent; (4) elements of criminal sexual penetration; (5) instruction on use of a firearm; and (6) the sentences imposed.

Self-In crimin a tion

The privilege against self-incrimination is the privilege of not being a witness against oneself. Constitution of the United States, Amend. V; Constitution of New Mexico, Art. II, § 15. See State v. Zamora, 84 N.M. 245, 501 P.2d 689 (Ct.App.1972); State v. Watson, 82 N.M. 769, 487 P.2d 197 (Ct.App.1971).

The trial court ordered a psychiatric examination of defendant to determine his mental condition. This court-ordered examination did not violate the privilege against self-incrimination United States v. Cohen, 530 F.2d 43 (5th Cir. 1976); State v. Phillips, 245 Or. 466, 422 P.2d 670 (1967); Annot., 32 A.L.R.2d 434 at 444; 8 Wigmore, Evidence, § 2265 (McNaughton rev. 1961).

Defendant claims that he had a right not to answer questions asked during this examination, see Shepard v. Bowe, 250 Or. 288, 442 P.2d 238 (1968), that he was not adequately advised of this right, that he made communications to the examiner which were incriminatory and these communications were testified to at trial. The answer is factual; no incriminating statements made by defendant in connection with the psychiatric examination were testified to at the trial.

Contentions Not Supported by the Record

The following two contentions are not supported by the record.

1. Count XIII charged the kidnapping of Martha with the intent to hold her to service against her will. Section 40A-4-1(A)(3), supra. Defendant contends the evidence was not sufficient to show such an intent. There was evidence that defendant bound and gagged Martha and her mother, raped the mother and stated that Martha and her mother were to take defendant out of state, to Oklahoma. The evidence of intent was sufficient.

2. During cross-examination of the psychiatrist called by the State on rebuttal, the State objected to a defense question. The objection was sustained. The defense stated it wanted “to make an offer of proof on the question that I asked”. The trial court stated that defendant could make the tender after the jury was excused for the night. Defendant did not object to this procedure. See State v. Snow, 84 N.M. 399, 503 P.2d 1177 (Ct.App.1972). After the jury was excused, the question was repeated and the witness answered. Thereafter defense counsel stated “we would like to make an offer of proof with regard to other questions to which objections were sustained.” The trial court ruled it was “too late now.” Defendant claims this ruling of the trial court denied him the right to put on a defense, to confront witnesses and to have effective assistance of counsel, because it precluded a “complete offer of proof.”

We assume defendant’s belated request to offer proof goes to the psychiatrist and not other witnesses, otherwise the contention is meaningless. With the exception of the one question and answer referred to above, at the time objections were sustained, defendant did not ask to make an offer of proof. See Evidence Rule 103(a)(2). Defendant’s contention goes to unidentified “other questions” and with no theory of admissibility stated as to the unidentified questions. See State v. Quintana, 87 N.M. 414, 534 P.2d 1126 (Ct.App.1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 832, 96 S.Ct. 54, 46 L.Ed.2d 50 (1975); State v. Santillanes, 86 N.M. 627, 526 P.2d 424 (Ct.App.1974). We cannot say the trial court erred in not permitting defendant to put on a general offer of proof going to an unidentified subject matter.

Instruction on Intent

There are two contentions concerning intent instructions.

1. Several of the counts charged specific intent crimes. U.J.I.Crim. 41.11 is an instruction on inability of a defendant to form a specific intent because of the use of alcohol or drugs or because he suffered from a mental disease or disorder. The evidence justified such an instruction in this case as to each of the specific intent crimes charged.

Defendant requested a separate intent instruction for each specific intent crime charged. These requested instructions were refused.

The trial court did instruct on specific intent. It gave a separate instruction stating the elements for each of the counts charging kidnapping (four of them). It then gave the equivalent of U.J.I.Crim. 41.-11, making that one instruction applicable to the specific intent involved in the four kidnapping charges and identifying those charges in the intent instruction. This procedure was followed as to the other specific intent crimes; that is, the jury was instructed as to each count of a particular crime and these instructions were followed by one instruction as to the specific intent required for that particular crime.

In addition, the trial court instructed on the basis of U.J.I.Crim. 41.11 concerning alcohol, drugs and mental disease or disorder. This instruction was applied to the specific intent crimes by naming them in the instruction.

Defendant claims these instructions were error for two reasons. First, he asserts the procedure followed violated the Use Note to U.J.I.Crim. 41.11 which states: “[T]he instruction should follow the elements instruction for the crime or crimes with the intent element.” The asserted violation is in not giving a separate intent instruction as to each kidnapping count (for example), but in giving one intent instruction applicable to all of the kidnapping counts. Second, he asserts that he was prejudiced because the method followed by the trial court in instructing on specific intent was confusing.

Defendant’s contentions border on the frivolous. There were no objections to the specific intent instructions given. R.Crim.P.

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