State v. Harris

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

The state charged defendant, a second offender, with feloniously assaulting Dennis Washington by stabbing him with a knife. A jury found Harris guilty and the trial court imposed a three-year sentence.

Harris appeals, raising only two points, each related to the state’s cross examination of his character witness. He first contends the court erred in allowing the state to frame questions about his previous conviction and arrests as statements of fact for which the state vouched. Allied to this, defendant contends the court erred in denying a mistrial because the…