State v. Brown

Defendants assign as error the action of the trial court in failing to declare a mistrial when Detective F. C. Gregory, witness for the State, testified with respect to a conversation between the officer and the State’s witness Leonard Yates, as, follows:

“Q. State the nature of that conversation, if you will.

“A. It was late in the afternoon that I talked with Mr. Yates down on South Street. He stated to me that he had been approached by John Earl Brown wanting to sell him an adding machine that came out of the Oldham & Worth place.”

Objection and motion to strike. The motion was allowed and…