Maynor v. State

Hill, Justice.

The jury found the defendant guilty of murder and he was sentenced to life in prison. On appeal he. urges that the trial court erred in sustaining the prosecutor’s objection to defense counsel’s question to the defendant concerning whether the victim previously had tried to pick fights with the defendant.

The jury was authorized from the evidence to find that the victim was the defendant’s uncle, that on the night in question the defendant came to his grandmother’s house where the victim lived, that the defendant and the victim had a fight which started in the house as a…