Brown v. State

ON REHEARING

Connie Brown was convicted for the manslaughter of his seven-year-old daughter, Dondie Kaye, and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Two issues are raised on appeal.

I

The defendant argues that his motion for new trial should have been granted because of the repeated attempts of the prosecutor to establish that the defendant had problems with drugs and alcohol.

On the 17th of September, 1983, the defendant's daughter was killed when the truck in which she was riding as a passenger and which was driven by the defendant crashed into a tree. It was the prosecution's theory that the…