State v. Rivers

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant was tried in a noncapital trial upon a proper indictment charging him with murder. The jury found the defendant guilty of first degree murder, and the trial court entered judgment sentencing him to imprisonment for life.

On appeal, the defendant contends that the trial court committed plain error requiring a new trial by failing to strike ex mero motu an answer given by a witness, during cross-examination by the defendant, tending to show that the defendant had made a threat to kill the victim sometime prior to the actual killing in this case. We do not agree.

The…