PER CURIAM.
Appellant, a state prisoner, is serving a life sentence for murder. His first contention is that a mistrial should have been granted when the prosecution referred to a prior conviction as "statutory rape" when in fact the conviction was for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
"[I]nstances occur in almost every trial where inadmissible evidence creeps in, usually inadvertently. `A defendant is entitled to a fair trial but not a perfect one...
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