State v. Cotton

SIMON, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of Burglary Second Degree and Stealing. We affirm.

Defendant contends the trial court erred (1) in allowing the trial to proceed in defendant’s absence; (2) in refusing to grant a mistrial when a state’s witness testified that a co-participant had confessed; (3) in failing to discharge a juror and grant a mistrial upon discovery that the juror had participated in a conversation with William J. Shaw, Public Defender of the 21st Judicial Circuit; (4) in allowing the state to submit evidence of defendant’s flight; and (5) in refusing to accept…