State v. Hannah

Appellant’s principal complaint addressed to the fairness of the proceedings at trial is that his counsel was frustrated in his attempted cross-examination of the victim-witness which was designed to elicit inconsistencies between that witness’ testimony and Ms pre-trial statements. Appellee’s response to that contention is that the inquiry was not artfully pursued and that defendant’s counsel made no proffer of the expected responses so as to permit this court to determine whether prejudicial error resulted from the trial court’s rulings excluding those responses.

This case is one in which we…