Martin v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

Defendant Clarence A. Martin, Jr., appeals his conviction for murder on grounds that the trial court made three errors concerning the admission of evidence. We affirm, concluding that (1) evidence of a prior police traffic stop did not violate the proscription on prior bad act evidence, (2) a witness’s prior inconsistent statement was admitted for purposes of impeachment and so was not hearsay, and (3) evidence of another witness’s juvenile record was properly excluded.

This Court has jurisdiction over this direct appeal because the longest single sen tence exceeds fifty…