Kearney v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

This is an appeal from a robbery conviction. Appellant claims that the trial court erred in admitting evidence relating to flight and in limiting defense argument to twenty minutes.

*129Deliberate avoidance of apprehension or prosecution may be properly admissible as showing consciousness of guilt. In the case at bar, when the prosecutor announced his intention during opening argument to raise “the issue of flight,” the trial judge cautiously excluded any comment on the subject of flight by the district attorney until a formal legal ruling had been made by the…