State v. Stamps

GUNN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of forcible rape and sentenced by the trial court under the Second Offender Act to life imprisonment. On appeal, defendant raises the following points of alleged trial court error: (1) admitting the testimony of a state’s witness regarding an unrelated incident near the scene of the crime before it occurred; (2) overruling defendant’s motion for acquittal at the close of the State’s case; (3) denying a request for mistrial on the basis of the prosecutor’s reference to defendant’s race; (4) denying a request for mistrial on the basis of the…