STATE v. HARRIS

No. 38357.

558 S.W.2d 282 (1977)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. James Alvin HARRIS, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division One.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied October 11, 1977.

Application to Transfer Denied November 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Babione, Public Defender, St. Louis, for appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Ott, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, George A. Peach, Circuit Atty., Michael G. Ravetta, Asst. Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for respondent.


CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

The state charged defendant, a second offender, with feloniously assaulting Dennis Washington by stabbing him with a knife. A jury found Harris guilty and the trial court imposed a three-year sentence.

Harris appeals, raising only two points, each related to the state's cross examination of his character witness. He first contends the court erred in allowing the state to frame questions about his previous conviction and arrests as...

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