Boone v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

A jury found Michael Martin Boone and Paul Harvey Baldwin guilty of attempted robbery. They seek a reversal on four grounds: (1) the trial judge erred in permitting two witnesses to the crime to make in-court identifications of Boone and Baldwin; (2) Boone’s sweater, State’s Exhibit “F”, was improperly received in evidence; (3) the victim’s reference to her assailants as “dirty Niggers” constituted prejudicial error for which a motion for a mistrial should have been granted; and (4) the trial judge erred in charging the jury.

On the morning of July 25, 1967,…