State v. Murdock

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Davis, J.:

We granted Mathew D. Murdock’s petition for review from a Court of Appeals decision affirming his conviction of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. The defendant claims that the trial court erred by allowing die State to reopen its case to present additional evidence on an element of the offenses charged. He also claims that he was not adequately represented by counsel and that the trial court erred when responding to a jury question during its deliberations. We affirm.

Facts

In November 2004, Lucas Diehl confronted Murdock at a party in…