Wyo. R. Crim. P. 51 (2026)

Rule 51. Exceptions Unnecessary.

Exceptions to rulings or orders of the court are unnecessary and for all purposes for which an exception has heretofore been necessary it is sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling or order of the court is made or sought, makes known to the court the action which that party desires the court to take or that party’s objection to the action of the court and the grounds therefor; but if a party has no opportunity to object to a ruling or order, the absence of an objection does not thereafter prejudice that party.

Compare. — Rule 51, Fed. Rules Cr. Proc. Where no objection was made to testi-

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mony, defendant cannot be heard to com- an instruction concerning testimony of charac- plain on appeal. — Loddy v. State, 502 P.2d ter witnesses, but it is silent as to any objection 194, 1972 Wyo. LEXIS 277 (Wyo. 1972), cert. by counsel to the judge’s refusal to give such, denied, 414 U.S. 1134, 94 S. Ct. 877, 38 L. Ed. the Supreme Court will not consider the con- 2d 760, 1974 U.S. LEXIS 1493 (U.S. 1974). tention of a denial of a fair trial unless the Unobjected to failure to give instruction failure to give such instruction was plain or nonreversible unless plain or fundamen- fundamental error. Elam v. State, 578 P.2d tal error. — Where record reveals the offer of 1367, 1978 Wyo. LEXIS 199 (Wyo. 1978).