State v. Chitwood

The defendant-appellant, Robert Chitwood, appeals from his conviction on one count of domestic violence with a previous conviction for the same offense, and aggravated burglary. Chitwood raises four assignments of error concerning the trial court’s failure to grant a mistrial or allow a proffer of evidence following Chitwood’s assertion that the jury had viewed him in shackles and that the proximity of the deputy sheriff to his person throughout the trial prejudiced his defense. Furthermore, Chitwood assigns as error the trial court’s failure to strike the specification to the…