State v. Taylor

GRIMM, Judge.

In this jury tried case, Willie Taylor, Jr., appeals his conviction of murder in the second degree, in violation of § 565.021 (RSMo.1986), and his sentence, as a prior offender, to a term of life imprisonment.

There are four allegations of error. First, that the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s objection to the State’s cross-examination of clinical psychologist Dean Lawrence Rosen on the grounds of relevancy and because it was beyond the scope of direct examination. We disagree, since trial courts are vested with considerable discretion in controlling cross-examination,…