State v. Rice

NORWIN D. HOUSER, Special Judge.

On this appeal Antonia Rice, convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, seeks reversal of the judgment on the basis of allegedly improper cross-examination of defendant and improper admission of evidence.

Antonia Rice and her husband Joel went to the home of Jeanette Johnson, Antonia’s sister, to see if Antonia had left any clothes there and to pick up some phonograph records. Michael Collor, the victim of the killing, was present. He stated that one Yancey had the records and that they were broken. Joel Rice, agitated by this, said to…