Simmons v. State

In this case, we must determine whether the trial court committed reversible error by refusing to permit appellant during cross-examination of the State’s medical expert to ask the expert whether his medical opinions concerning the victim’s injuries would change if he knew that appellant’s wife had written a letter indicating her intent to assert her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination if called to testify in the case. We shall hold that the trial court acted within its discretion in prohibiting this proposed line of cross-examination, and affirm the judgment of the trial…