State v. Taylor

MOLLOY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of assault with a deadly weapon. The charge arose from the defendant’s shooting of a 15-year-old boy. We are concerned principally with whether the trial court unduly restricted cross-examination of prosecution witnesses.

The shooting occurred on premises occupied by the defendant as his home. There are no witnesses to the shooting except the defendant and the complaining witness and their stories of what occurred are sharply conflicting.

The youth who was shot testified that he went to the defendant’s home on the evening in question to…