State v. Gettings

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

Kenneth Gettings, defendant, appeals from jury convictions of burglary and aggravated arson.

Gettings claims the trial court erred by: (1) admitting the statement of a deceased eyewitness based on Gettings’ alleged procurement of the witness’ death; (2) not declaring a mistrial when the State did not produce a prior taped statement of a prosecution witness until after the witness had been examined and cross-examined both at a pretrial hearing and before the jury; and (3) refusing to admit a ballistics report from Arkansas when the defense did…