State v. Hodges

SNYDER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of second degree murder and a sentence of forty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Appellant contends the trial court erred in: (1) failing to grant appellant’s motion for a mistrial when the state in its opening statement said that appellant was given his Miranda 1 rights because it was an improper comment on appellant’s right to remain silent; (2) overruling appellant’s objection to the state’s calling appellant’s wife as a witness; (3) denying appellant’s motion for a mistrial when the appellant’s wife…