Carswell v. State

Sears, Justice.

Appellant Randy Carswell appeals from his conviction and life sentence for malice murder. While we find that the trial court abused its discretion by refusing to allow Carswell to play a videotaped statement he made to police during his cross-examination of the State’s chief investigator, we also find that Carswell suffered no harm as a result. Because we reject Carswell’s other enumerations as meritless, we affirm.

Late one night, appellant Carswell and several others met with the victim Daniels, a drug dealer. At that time, Daniels showed Cars-well approximately $1,700 in cash…