State v. Porter

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for first degree murder. On appeal, the defendant contends that the trial court committed prejudicial error: 1) in failing to declare a mistrial after the prosecutor allegedly injected the issue of narcotics into the case during cross-examination of two defense witnesses; 2) in limiting defendant’s counsel’s scope of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding and consequences of prior convictions of a State’s witness; 3) in failing to submit a manslaughter instruction to the jury. We find no prejudicial error and affirm the judgment.

On September…