Allen v. State

WIGGINTON, Acting Chief Judge.

Defendant has appealed a judgment of conviction and sentence based upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of second degree murder. The appeal presents only one point for our consideration.

During the trial appellee called as one of its principal witnesses a police officer who arrived at the scene of the crime shortly after it was committed. His testimony consisted primarily of fixing the time and place of the altercation which resulted in the death of the victim, the witnesses who were present and who arrived shortly after the occurrence, his observations made at…