State v. Jetton

Defendant assigns as error that the trial judge restricted his cross-examination of the State’s witness Danny Cowan as to the ownership of the stolen vehicle.

In his cross-examination the defendant’s counsel sought to elicit a second time that the title to the vehicle in question was registered in the name of some person in South Carolina.

The witness had already testified that the vehicle title was registered in the name of someone in South Carolina, and the trial judge stated that he was sustaining the objection to the second inquiry because of repetition. Clearly the defendant was not…