State v. Joseph

• Defendant appealed from a judgment of conviction of first degree murder.

Defendant claims that the court erroneously admitted evidence that defendant had committed other crimes and had been incarcerated therefor. A state’s witness testified that he had had two conversations with defendant prior to the killing of the victim, in which defendant said that he was going to be sent right back from where he had come because he couldn’t stand the victim and that once yon kill it isn’t hard to kill again.

If this evidence was relevant to an issue in the instant case, it does not become inadmissible…