Mitchell v. State

A Pulaski County jury convicted appellant Michael Mitchell of second-degree murder and first-degree battery, for which he received an aggregate term of thirty-four years' imprisonment.1 Mitchell does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions; rather, he argues that the trial court made two evidentiary errors: (1) the trial court abused its discretion by excluding evidence of the victim's reputation for violence in the community and (2) the trial court abused its discretion by not admitting his statement made under the present-sense-impression exception to the…