Wilcox v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of one count of first-degree murder, four counts of armed kidnapping, and one count of armed robbery. Appellant was sentenced to death for the murder conviction. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the prosecutor’s method of impeachment after Appellant’s prior conviction record was entered into evidence was improper, but the error was harmless; (2) the State did not violate either the spirit or the technical requirements of the criminal discovery rules by refusing to transcribe a witness’s recorded statement for Defendant; (3) the trial court erred by prohibiting Appellant from attempting to refresh a witnesses’s recollection, but the error was harmless; (4) Appellant’s right to compulsory process was not violated; (5) the trial court erred in finding an avoid arrest aggravating circumstance, but the error was harmless; (6) Defendant’s death sentence was proportionate; and (7) there was sufficient evidence to support Appellant’s convictions.
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