Morgan v. State

The appellant, Terry Jo Morgan, was found guilty by a jury of first-degree assault and second-degree theft. He was sentenced, upon application of the Habitual Felony Offender Act ("HFOA"), to life imprisonment on the first-degree assault conviction and to 20 years' imprisonment on the second-degree theft conviction, to run concurrently with his life sentence

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The appellant asserts that the trial court erred by refusing to grant a mistrial after the admission of what he says was improper character evidence. During cross-examination of Investigator Greg Daniels of the Baldwin County Sheriff's…