State v. Nickerson

WEBB, Justice.

The defendant’s first assignment of error deals with questions propounded to the defendant on cross-examination in regard to prior acts of misconduct by the defendant. The following colloquy took place during the cross-examination of the defendant:

Q. And when you saw Harold Johnson, you remembered an occasion seventeen or eighteen years ago when you threatened to pull a knife on him and told him to quit messing around with your girlfriend or you would kill him, didn’t you?

A. I don’t know nothing about this. Me and Harold is friends, right now.

Q. And so you were so enraged about…