Cosby v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment. He has appealed to this court.

Although assignments of error were not necessary, appellant has noted them and they are helpful in our study of the case. These assignments raise the only questions meriting treatment so we will limit discussion to them.

Assignment of error 24 predicates error on the refusal of the trial court to grant appellant’s motion for a mistrial. During the solicitor’s examination of Josie Grigsby, witness for the State, the following…