State v. Willard

COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant first contends the court erred when it allowed Sheriff Blalock at the pretrial hearing on defendant’s motion to express a personal opinion as to why defendant’s mental condition had changed.

The record of the hearing discloses the following testimony by Sheriff Blalock on direct examination:

“When Bobby came back from the hospital the first time back in November, the jailer let him out on different occasions to do small jobs around the jail and he appeared to be a normal prisoner. The unusual something came up right before the last term or right after the last term…