Hines v. State

Appellant, Major Hines, appeals his convictions for aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence on the grounds that the trial court improperly applied the sequestration rule and excluded one of his witnesses. We reverse.

The charged offenses arose from an episode in which Deputy Sheriffs Taylor and Plouffe were called to the home of appellant and his wife, Cora Hines, because of a reported domestic disturbance. Upon arriving at the scene, according to the officers’ account, then.' encounter with appellant rapidly escalated into a hostile confrontation…