State v. Beckett

MILLER, Justice:

The defendant, Donald Wayne Beckett, appeals his aggravated robbery conviction, for which he was sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary. He assigns a number of errors: (1) the trial court’s refusal to dismiss for cause two potential jurors; (2) the prosecutor’s improper statements in closing argument and his improper impeachment of a defense witness; (3) the sufficiency of the indictment; (4) the trial court’s refusal to grant a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence; (5) the sufficiency of the evidence; and (6) the giving of an instruction defining…