Jackson v. State

Eloise Jackson, a/k/a Eloise Jones appeals from a conviction of murder with a life sentence. There were several eyewitnesses who saw the appellant stab the victim. Her defense was that she had stabbed him because she was afraid that she would be killed because of the beating she had sustained and the fact that the deceased had been drinking and using drugs.

The sole enumeration of error contends that the trial court erred in refusing to allow appellant’s counsel to examine the report of the State Crime Laboratory’s expert witness concerning her analysis of the victim’s blood. This witness was…