Opinion ID: 1611386
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: did the court err in allowing into evidence the statement of estes made at the time of his arrest?

Text: The statement objected to by Estes was that when he was arrested he said, Oh, s____. In support of his argument he cites the case of Thomas v. State, 474 So.2d 604 (Miss. 1985), which deals with multi-count indictments prior to the passage of § 99-7-2 (1972), as Amended, and has nothing whatsoever to do with this assignment of error. On appeal Estes now argues that the statement should not have been admitted into evidence because it was not provided during discovery. It is true that the oral statement of the defendant was discoverable but the failure to grant discovery is sufficiently innocuous not to rise to reversible error proportions. See Moore v. State, 508 So.2d 666, 668 (Miss. 1987). Furthermore, there is no evidence that the trial judge abused his discretion in overruling the objection. Jenkins v. State, 507 So.2d 89, 93 (Miss. 1987). There is no merit to this assignment of error by Estes.