State v. Harris

Goolsby, Judge:

James Michael Harris appeals his conviction for kidnapping his estranged wife. He claims the trial court erred in excluding the testimony of a mental health worker on his state of mind at the time of the incident and in denying his request to charge the jury that criminal liability required an evil meaning mind and an evil doing hand. We affirm.

The facts are not in dispute. In the summer of 1992, Harris and his wife Lynda began having marital difficulties. Following an apparently unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation, Harris, who had been hospitalized for emotional problems…