State v. Brooks

Defendant appeals from a conviction of first-degree murder.

Error is assigned to (1) the trial court’s ruling that defendant was competent to stand trial; (2) alleged misconduct by the State interfering with defendant’s assistance of counsel; (3) the qualifications of the ballistics expert; (4) the admission of the results of experiments conducted with the death weapon; (5) the admission of character evidence of the victim; and (6) the giving and refusal to give certain instructions. We affirm.

During the evening of February 4, 1975, Linda Madison, defendant’s girl friend of several months,…