Hawes v. State

Sears, Justice.

Gary Anderson Hawes appeals from his conviction for felony murder. We find no error in the trial court’s denial of a special demurrer which sought to strike the use of Hawes’ alias name from the indictment. Furthermore, assuming without deciding that the trial court erred by admitting a criminal contempt order into evidence for purposes of witness impeachment, we find any resulting error to have been harmless. We also find the trial court’s recharge to the jury that it could consider a count charging felony murder after deadlocking on a count charging malice murder to be…