Millwood v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve 15 years in confinement. He now asserts three enumerations of error on this appeal. Held:

1. Defendant first contends that the trial court erred in allowing evidence of an incident occurring a year earlier in which he had used a knife against an unarmed man in a fight. As a general rule, evidence of criminal acts committed by a defendant not included in the indictment are inadmissible because it tends to impermissably put the defendant’s character in issue. See Code § 38-202.…