State v. Locklear

MARTIN, Justice.

We find prejudicial error with respect to defendant’s first assignment of error and, therefore, reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals. In this assignment defendant argues that he was deprived of due process of law by the actions of the trial court regarding the state’s principal witness.

The state’s evidence tended to show that defendant and the state’s witness Mary Hunt Campbell were friends and that they occasionally lived together in Ms. Campbell’s mobile home. On the night in question they had an argument, and Ms. Campbell called the Fairmont police because defendant…