Chapman v. State

The majority holds in Part I that the circuit court committed no error when it allowed five law-enforcement officers to testify that Jonathan Elliff had made five calls reporting domestic violence in the year before his - death. I disagree with that holding and the analysis underlying it. I would reverse the conviction and hold that the circuit court erred when it admitted the evidence because the evidence vio*338lated Rule 404(b) and Rule 403, Ala. R. Evid., and the error was not harmless.

Karla Gaye Chapman admitted that she stabbed her husband, Jonathan Elliff but claimed that she did so in…