Tate v. State

Betty C. Dickey, Justice.

Appellant Kevin Tate was convicted by a jury of the first-degree murder of Melissa Portwood and sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment. He asserts four points on appeal, arguing that the trial court erred: (1) by admitting the testimony of Brande Schaffer that Tate fired a gun near her two days before the shooting death of Portwood; (2) by allowing the State to improperly place Tate’s character in issue; (3) by denying Tate’s motion for a mistrial because of the prosecutor’s remarks during closing arguments; and, (4) by admitting a series of photographs during the…