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Missing Witness Charge Must Be Requested When It Is Known Witness Will Not Testify.

Request for a missing witness jury instruction must be made when it is learned the witness will not be called, not after the close of proof.  Midstate Mutual Insurance Co vs Camp Road Transmission, Inc., 1462, CA 12-00961 Fourth Dept. 2-1-13

 

 

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