State v. Tate

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant’s first two assignments of error concern eviden-tiary rulings of the trial court relating to a communication between defendant and the attorney who represented him in connection with another criminal charge. These assignments require further examination of the evidence adduced at trial.

State’s witness Margaret Ann Robinson testified that during the course of his assault on her defendant stated: “I got a letter from my lawyer saying that I was going to make ten years for shooting in your house. . . . You are not going to live to testify.” State’s witness Malinda Ann…