State, 2007 WY 89, 158 P.3d 698, 2007 Wyo

LEXIS 96 (Wyo. 2007), overruled, Patterson v. State, 2025 WY 30, 565 P.3d 692, 2025 Wyo. LEXIS 31 (Wyo. 2025). Severance denied where evidence would have been same had charges been tried separately. — A motion for severance of two burglary counts was properly denied where the evidence would have been the same had the charges been tried separately and, therefore, there was no prejudice in trying them jointly. Bishop v. State, 687 P.2d 242, 1984 Wyo. LEXIS 310 (Wyo. 1984), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1219, 105 S. Ct. 1203, 84 L. Ed. 2d 345, 1985 U.S. LEXIS 998 (U.S. 1985). Denial of defendant’s motion to sever was not an abuse of discretion where the court had properly instructed the jury on the need to keep evidence on each count separate and where the defendant failed to make a showing of actual prejudice. Vargas v. State, 963 P.2d 984, 1998 Wyo. LEXIS 105 (Wyo. 1998), reh’g denied, 1998 Wyo. LEXIS 124 (Wyo. Aug. 26, 1998). Joinder of several offenses concealing stolen goods — burglary, murder, assault — was proper because of their inter-relation (i. e., concealed guns played a prominent part in the murder and assault, the concealment of a car and the burglary were connected with the flight from the scene of the crime), and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a motion to sever, the facts of the case being uncomplicated and the jury being specifically instructed that each charge had to be consid-