Sweetser v. State

HENDRY, Judge.

Defendant-appellant Sweetser was informed against for second degree murder. He was convicted, pursuant to a jury verdict, of third degree murder, and he was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.

Appellant’s points on appeal are that the court erred in denying his several motions for mistrial based upon allegedly improper cross examination, attacks upon his character where it had not been put in issue and an allegedly improper comment by the prosecution as to a prior judicial ruling on the admissibility of defendant’s statements. Lastly, he urges that the court erred in finding…