State v. Ford

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of two counts of first degree assault. His appeal charges trial court error in failing to declare a mistrial after comments by witnesses to a separate crime and in allowing a witness to testify that defendant had made threatening telephone calls to her. We affirm. *575Evidence of defendant’s guilt is overwhelming. On the day of the crime, defendant went to a north St. Louis apartment in which Clifford Johnson was staying with his girlfriend, Cynthia Stevenson Boyd. Defendant was admitted to the apartment and a brief verbal argument ensued between him and…