Howard v. State

Adams, Judge.

Following a jury trial, James Howard was found guilty of four counts of aggravated assault (family violence), one count of cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated battery (family violence).1 He filed a motion for new trial, which the trial court denied, and then the present appeal. He now argues that the trial court erred by admitting evidence of similar transactions and that the trial court should have granted a mistrial because of prosecutorial…