State v. Williams

The defendant, Donald Alan Williams, appeals from an order of the trial court denying his post-conviction motion for a new trial. By jury verdict he was convicted of the crimes of first-degree burglary and first-degree rape, in each count, while being armed with or in the possession of a deadly weapon, to wit: a knife with a blade in excess of 3 inches. His primary contention on appeal, as expressed in his major assignment of error, is that the trial court repeatedly erred by denying his pretrial, trial, and post-trial motions to introduce evidence of "the complaining witness' drug selling…