State v. Barnett

PARKER, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the court’s overruling his objection to the district attorney’s question directed to the State’s witness, James Stewart, as to whether it was Stewart’s “usual practice to go about locking the house” before going to bed. Defendant contends this was error because the witness had just previously testified that he had no recollection concerning locking his house before going to bed on the night of 24 May 1978. Defendant argues that in view of this testimony, whatever Stewart’s “usual practice” may have been, it could not have been relevant in this…