Martin v. State

Beth Gladden Coulson, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for battery in the first degree. The appellant, Dexter Gene Martin, argues that the trial court erred in exempting the State’s expert witnesses from the requirement that all witnesses be excluded from the courtroom during appellant’s trial once counsel for the appellant had invoked the witness-exclusion rule. The appellant also argues that the court erred in imposing a 12 year sentence of imprisonment and a $5,000.00 fine when the jury verdict form could be read as a recommended sentence of either 12 years imprisonment “or” a…