Moughon v. State

OPINION

DAUPHINOT, Justice.

A jury convicted Appellant John Craig Moughon of aggravated assault. The judge sentenced him to twelve years’ confinement. Moughon brings two points on appeal.

In his first point, Moughon complains that the trial court erred by requiring him to wear handcuffs during voir dire. To preserve a complaint for our review, a party must have made a timely and specific objection at trial.1 Moughon did not do so.

The appellate rules do not require an objection, however, when the trial court commits an egregious error, error creating such harm as to have denied the defendant a…