State v. Miller

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Ronald Ray Miller, was convicted by a jury of assault in the third degree, § 565.070, RSMo (1978), and sentenced to a term of ninety days in jail and a fine of $1,000. His appeal alleges four points of trial error: (1) failure to grant a mistrial when a witness volunteered information about defendant’s past conduct, (2) refusal to allow Festus Police Chief Paga-no to testify regarding victim Hall’s previous complaints against men, (3) refusal to allow defendant’s two sons to testify about Hall’s physical confrontation with her ex-husband in the hospital after the…