Morgan v. State

Nichols, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

1. His first enumeration of error asserts that the trial court erred in overruling his objection to the testimony of a female witness about his having kicked her in the courthouse hallway during a lunch recess.

After the lunch recess and before recalling the jury, the court determined by questioning a deputy sheriff and appellant that appellant had broken away from the deputy’s custody and repeatedly had kicked the witness until restrained by the deputy; that the incident caused the witness to scream,…