Sport v. State

Weltner, Justice.

Jerry Sport shot and killed Arthur Glover with a handgun. He appeals his conviction of murder and sentence to life imprisonment.

1. Sport contends that the trial court improperly allowed the state to reopen its case to present a witness who had been shot by Sport in an unrelated incident.

The witness, Eddie Shields, testified that Sport shot him with a .22 caliber revolver during a dice game in an argument over a debt. This occurred on the day before Sport killed Glover. Prior to this testimony, the court charged the jury that they were to consider the evidence only to show…