Court Opinion

ID: 9593368
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:21:59.734983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:20.903136
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Grice, Justice,
dissenting. I respectfully dissent from Division 4, which holds that the motion for mistrial was properly denied because defendant’s counsel did not at that time also move to have the witness’s answer complained of excluded from evidence. I know of no principle of law which requires such a motion by the defendant as a prerequisite to the grant of a mistrial where, as here, a witness for the State gave unsolicited *327testimony which put the defendant's character in issue. The two cases relied upon do not so hold.
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Quillian joins in this dissent.