State v. Whisenant

FRYE, Justice.

Defendant presents on appeal two issues to this Court. First, he contends that certain questions by the prosecutor which “put before the jury irrelevant and prejudicial insinuations that the defendant had committed other serious crimes” denied him a fair trial. For the reasons articulated below we do not agree. Defendant also argues that the trial court committed reversible error by failing to strike one of the prosecutor’s arguments which defendant claims “travelled outside the record.” We have examined this contention as well and find that the trial court’s exercise of…