State v. Johnson

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Earsel Larry Johnson, appeals from his convictions, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and stealing. He was sentenced as a persistent offender to fifteen years’ imprisonment on each count, with the terms to run consecutively to each other (for a total of thirty years) and consecutive to all other sentences then being served.

Defendant contends the court erred (1) in overruling his request for a mistrial when the prosecutor asked a question of a State’s witness and obtained a response, which allegedly indicated defendant was involved in offenses…