Hicks v. State

I concur with the majority in holding that the trial court abused its discretion in allowing a set of triple-beam scales to be admitted into evidence over appellant’s timely objection. No connection was established between appellant and the set of triple-beam scales confiscated from another person’s home. Tommy Steen, an investigator for the Baxter County Sheriffs office, admitted that the set of triple-beam scales offered into evidence as State’s Exhibit No. 24 was found in a bedroom closet at the Silvers’s residence. Steen further admitted that he could not connect those triple-beam scales…