Suggs v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Willie Charles Suggs files this appeal from a judgment of conviction for first degree murder. Suggs’s primary point for reversal is the trial court’s refusal to allow him to recall two witnesses for cross-examination. Because of certain developments during the trial, we believe the argument must be sustained and therefore we reverse and remand.

On Sunday, December 13, 1992, Debbie Ann McKenzie was found murdered in her apartment. She died of multiple stab wounds. Her two sons, Anthony, age six, and Jamal, age four, were in the apartment. A neighbor, Karla Nolan, was the…