Matchett v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Benjamin F. Matchett was convicted by a jury and received a life sentence for the murder of his son, Tony Copeland, twenty years consecutive for each of two counts of aggravated assault, and twenty years consecutive for one count of aggravated assault on a police officer. He argues that a new trial should have been granted because the verdict is strongly against the weight of the evidence, because the trial court allowed improper questioning of a witness by a juror and allowed the improper introduction of evidence of the defendant’s character, and because the trial court refused…