Withee v. State

The appellant, Michael A. Withee, was indicted for murder. After being denied youthful offender status, he was found guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter and was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 20 years incarceration. He raises five issues in this appeal.

I

The appellant first contends that the trial court violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment because, he says, it improperly allowed a forensics expert to testify as to another forensics expert's autopsy findings and conclusions when no showing was made that the expert who performed the autopsy was…