State v. Tate

MARTIN, Justice.

The trial judge would not permit the defendant to testify concerning a conversation she had with Donald Watson upon entering the garage. Upon voir dire the defendant stated that had she been allowed to do so, she would have testified:

When I entered Mr. Watson’s office and I pushed the bag across and sat down on the corner of his desk and I started to talk to him about when he could possibly repaint the roof of my car, and Don told me, he said, “I have some urgent business to take care of.” He said, “If you’re going up to the barbecue stand with my brother to eat lunch, as soon…