State v. Phelps

This is an appeal by the appellant herein and defendant below, Scotty Gene Phelps, from his conviction of first degree murder and sentence to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The defendant was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Fayette County on December 13, 1994. The defendant has assigned as error the following: (1) the admission of testimony of other outstanding charges against him; (2) the failure to give the Defendant’s Jury Instructions Nos. 3 and 4; (3) the admission of testimony of conversations the police had with others not present at trial; (4) the failure…