Burdette v. State

Blackburn, Chief Judge.

Following his conviction by a jury of three acts of family violence battery, Curtis Wayne Burdette appeals, arguing that the trial court erred: (1) in failing to charge the jury on accident; (2) in allowing the State to refer to his pre-arrest silence and his failure to come forward and give the police his side of the story; (3) in sustaining the State’s objection to his cross-examination of the victim; (4) in admitting the victim’s written statement into evidence; and (5) in allowing the victim’s written statement to serve as a “continuing .witness.” For the reasons…