Jones v. State

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

In the opinion on original submission, the judgment of the trial court was reversed and the cause remanded for another trial on the sole ground that “the trial court was in error in limiting the number of character witnesses that defendant’s attorneys would call in his behalf.”

In the argument of counsel for the State in support of the application for rehearing by the State, the single issue presented is thus captioned:

“WHETHER IT WAS WITHIN THE TRIAL COURT’S DISCRETION TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF DEFENSE CHARACTER WITNESSES? YES.”

Counsel for the State argue that the…