Williams v. State

Carley, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of aggravated assault. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered by the trial court on the jury’s guilty verdict.

1. The trial court’s failure to grant a mistrial on the ground that the State had impermissibly placed appellant’s character into evidence is enumerated as error.

That appellant had previously killed a man was first introduced into the trial by appellant’s own testimony on direct examination. This direct testimony by appellant certainly cannot be characterized as “inadvertent statements…